Confirm bugs! (Was: Re: About 3.2 - note to bugfixers)

[Roger Larsson]

Confirming bugs is more important than closing!

I have a stored query in bugs.kde.org that lists my bugs.
Of the 47 I have reported
17 are CLOSED, 18 are RESOLVED (I usually do not list them)
3 NEW, 1 ASSIGNED, 1 REOPENED - OK, no problem there.

But I do also have 7 UNCONFIRMED.

Some have got no comments than mine. Some got a comment from
another user that it is confirmed. But how to change the State to
CONFIRMED? Who is allowed to do that? Why can't ordinary users
do that?

/RogerL


On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:43, George Staikos wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:51, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > This weekend the formula one season starts. How about we start our bug 
race
> > season this weekend too? And I want to see it even more exciting than the
> > ferrari celebration sport! Currently you can get in the top 15 with as few
> > as 5 closed bug reports. Close your 5 bugs _today_.
> >
> > Just two little reminders:
> >   * you can subscribe to kde-bugs-dist at kde.org if you want
> >      to help with first level support - here you see all incoming bugs, so
> > you can close the invalid ones, the report questions or the duplicates
> > right away. This helps a lot in keeping the database clean while the usual
> > developers miss the time (and it has less volume than kde-cvs :)
> 
>    Please please please note:  Do not close bugs if you do not know anything 
> about it, just to raise your score!  Also, be careful that you do not close 
> bugs that happen to only be fixed in one branch and still can be back or 
> forward ported!  This is particularily important for KHTML related bugs 
since 
> the branches are so different right now.  Many bugs are obvious duplicates 
or 
> clearly invalid (sometimes not even related to KDE at all), but it happens 
> too often that valid bugs get closed.  One other area to use extreme caution 
> with is security related bugs.  Those should only be closed by the author of 
> the code himself, and if he cannot reproduce the problem or show hard 
> evidence why it is not a problem, he should contact someone more 
knowledgable 
> in these areas.
> 
> -- 
> 
> George Staikos
> 
> 

-- 
Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden