Re: Bugs that maintainers don't respond to

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On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dne 03. 05. 25 v 4:33 odp. Chris Adams napsal(a):
> > What do you do with bugs that never get addressed in any way?  I've got
> > a few bugs that I've been testing and rolling over to newer Fedora
> > releases for years, with little or no maintainer response (not even
> > bothering to CLOSE WONTFIX).  It's still a bug, so I don't like to close
> > it... but if nobody else cares, maybe I shouldn't either.
> >
> > Seems like there needs to be some kind of better process than just
> > auto-closing old bugs.  If the maintainer doesn't feel like closing
> > them, maybe packages should just be orphaned and retired.
>
> Kernel has 1298 bugs in Fedora BZ. Many of them without comment. Does it make kernel non-functional? Does it mean that
> maintainer(s) does not care about the package? Should the package be retired? No. Definitely no.

Note that the bugzilla assignee for the "kernel" package seems to be a
deactivated bugzilla account, since a few months ago, so it's unclear
whether anybody is even getting notifications for bugs filed against
the package.

Fabio
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