[kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.2

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 19:06 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > based on previous experience doing some cleanups in the past for kicker and
> > kcontrol, i'd guess that we could reduce the # of reports by 10-25% simply
> > by removing dead reports (too old, no new responses), duplicates and
> > invalid requests. that's 800-1600 BRs, and even just that would make it a
> > lot easier to deal with the remaining reports.
> 
> IMHO "Too old" or "no new responses" might not always be sufficient to declare 
> a report dead. When I had a look at the bugs for khexedit I found some very 
> old ones with no new responses that were still valid. Some were easy to fix 
> (done :), some need a lot of base work, e.g. support for very large files, 
> (unfinished experimental code in kdenonbeta and on my harddisk). 
> 
> So please prepare your dead report filter to take the validness into account 
> :)
> 
it's very simple: "time out" only bugs that are "unconfirmed". re-test
"new" ones. for wishes, add the voting criterion for timing out "new"
wishes - if a maintainer wishes to keep the report open in any case, set
it to "assigned".

greetings

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