On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:45:30 +0200, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I really appreciate the effort everyone has put into cleaning out the old bugs in our bugzilla recently; however, I do have an issue with the way we're closing some of the bug reports. The ultimate outcome of wine is to enable a user to run windows apps just as they would in windows, so if a user has to run the app with a native dll or follow special instructions to make it work, then there is a bug in wine that needs to be fixed. Quite a few bugs have been closed recently referring the user to the instructions in the AppDB or to a list of dll overrides that makes the app work. Recommending a dll override can be useful to the end user as a temporary workaround, but the bug hasn't been fixed. Cleaning out the bugzilla is well appreciated, but we must keep up due diligence in order to keep wine's bugzilla as a reliable status of wine's bugs. I offer this as the beginning of a discussion of bugzilla administration policies. Any thoughts, comments, and ideas are welcome.
-- James Hawkins
That was basically the point I was trying to make in the autocleaning script thread but I got told if I didnot like it I should volenteer as bugzilla maintainer.
I dont really give a hoot if wine bugzilla gets scapped, I was just trying to make the suggestion that the wish to reduce truely dead bugs should not be done in a way that reduces the value of the bug database and wastes the efforts of those have taken the time to fill a bug report.
I'm going to clear up my garage later but I'm not going to be throwing out the spanners to make the workshop look tidier.
Maybe you expressed it a bit better. ;)