Re: kernel bugzilla is FPOS (was: Re: "buggy cmd640" message followed by soft lockup)

From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kernel bugzilla is FPOS (was: Re: "buggy cmd640" message followed by soft lockup)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:08:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071125200800.GA9808@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711252107.23926.rjw@sisk.pl>

* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:

<snip>
 (many levels of quote)

> > > > * Bugs that sit in NEEDINFO state for more than i.e. one month should be
> > > >   automatically closed.
> > > 
> > > I agree that we probably should do something like this.
> >  
> > Not automatically.
> 
> OK, say "as a rule".

The only thing I would say is that a reporter can be in a situation
after a while where they no longer have access to the original
machine; if the bug was originally believed to be real and triaged
then it seems to make sense to differentiate that from a bug that is
just closed, just so people can know there is an issue with
a configuration.

Dave

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