Mike Hearn wrote:
I talked to Dimi, Lionel and Alexandre on IRC about this.
This is what they had to say:
Lionel didn't think it should be scrapped however he proposed a system whereby bugs that didn't have any activity for two releases or more would be automatically closed. If you wanted to keep a bug open users would have to post reports of behaviour with current releases.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1236
Summary: Marcus was apparently of the same opinion. I, obviously, am not.
I use bugzilla as a tool to keep track of my "todo" list. If there is a place where I suspect a certain behaviour is broken, I open a bug report (knowing it will only be me who will have to "confirm" it... :-), and leave it "unconfirmed".
I think asking us (wine developers) to move at the same pace Alexandre is releasing is unrealistic. The idea is to make bugzilla more friendly to us, not less.
I see why user-opened bugs could benefit from this policy, but developers opened bugs should probably not. Of all the BiDi related bugs, I think 1235 is the only place where a bug MAY have disappeared "by itself".
Shachar