https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15253
--- Comment #13 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com --- (In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #12)
Hello Nikolay,
--- quote --- P.S. if you don't want to retest just keep it open, where there's everything to reproduce an issue. --- quote ---
well, I already overextend my scope of work a lot in order to resolve/repair/revive many tickets but sometimes there is a limit for me.
In tickets where retesting has been requested at least two successive times and no one bothered to respond I make my point this way to force people still interested to react or not (even if a test case is present).
In case we need some instruction from OP on how to reproduce I totally agree, no response or any sign of interest from reporter then let's close as abandoned. Same case if there's no way to retest anymore because servers are dead, or trial versions don't exists anymore or never did, etc.
But if there's a test application or working download link and detailed instructions, it doesn't matter if OP still cares or not.
If you don't want that then ask certain people to not add me to all kinds of tickets. The problem is that adding/CC me to tickets raises some sort of expectation "focht is going to look at this", "let focht decide". This really creates a burden for me and I have to react somehow.
I don't know why those certain people are doing it, I thought it was on your approval actually, a person that CCed you on this particular bug is not capable of listening I'm afraid.
I spend a large amount of my time on things I don't really want to do but since I have the impression that not many people seem to actively try to reduce the number of open Bugzilla issues - I do it - but its no fun to be honest.
And thank you very much for spending time on that, I don't mean to diminish in any way the work you do.
And if you really think about me handling many of these simpler triaging tasks - it's a huge waste of my resource.
I agree, I don't expect you to do that. Also I don't expect bugs to be closed because of that, somebody else might take a look eventually years from now, and if a report is closed nobody will.
/rant off
Anyway, thanks for retesting this on your own.
Regards