From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NqV1t-0000mK-Tp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:21:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7028E0ABB; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFE5E09F2 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.146.207.236] (dyn-207-236-dsl.vsp.fi [83.146.207.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965FB1B4127 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B9BC9B0.1020907@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:21:52 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100309 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch References: <4B9A936B.3070804@gentoo.org> <4B9BC65D.9000504@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B9BC65D.9000504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a940a909-a1a1-4cd7-a257-216a1958706a X-Archives-Hash: 37ba396fe4a814685717ba40c5624ffe On 03/13/2010 07:07 PM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > When a bug is marked as fixed it doesn't show up in searches developers > use so it's a matter of who reads the email and acts upon it. I don't > see why maintainers would be any more likely to act than an arch team > comprised of multiple people in the case of bigger arches. Let's not > forget that users are really supposed to open new bugs instead of > commenting on the resolved ones although I know there are users out > there who rather comment on a two year old only distantly related bug > than open a new one. I would love to see a bugzilla feature that would entirely disable commenting on closed bugs like on archlinux's bugtracking system[1] [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg11996.html That might possibly need "Request reopen" button of somesort, or we could just always require people to open new bugs Often people just wish to argue about the closing status, after the bug has been resolved...