Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.25
From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:11:11 +1000
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Hi Rafael etc.

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 7 of July 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
> > On 06-07-08 23:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW, the automated emails I'm sending are to let the reporters know
> > > that I'm interested in the current status of the bug.  They are free
> > > not to reply to them, but in that case I assume they don't really
> > > care whether or not I'm tracking the bugs they reported.
> > 
> > I did/do wonder by the way when I get them if I should be replying if 
> > the status is unchanged from my viewpoint...
> > 
> > I believe your automated emails say something like "please verify if 
> > this problem is still relevant" but don't spell out what do after you
> > verified that it is. It's sort of natural to take that as "I need to 
> > reply telling people it's fixed if it is but can remain silent if 
> > nothing changed".
> 
> The exact wording is
> 
> "The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> from 2.6.25.  Please verify if it still should be listed."
> 
> > Being more explicit about liking a reporter to report "yes, nothing 
> > changed" would probably be good if that IS what's wanted.
> 
> Well, I can change it to
> 
> "Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know."
> 
> if that's better.
> 

I would suggest that you should assume it's still relevant until the
bugzilla entry gets closed. The person fixing the bug should be
responsible for modifying the report to say that a patch is available
and then has been merged (or for saying it's an invalid report etc).

This way, you're making the whole process less burdensome rather than
so.

Regards,

Nigel

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