Re: Bugs that maintainers don't respond to

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On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> That is incorrect, I receive and read every bug and comment.  We just
> get so many, and it is pretty much only me, that I do not take time to
> reply unless I need more info, or to provide information.

I'm sorry, I did not mean to imply that bugs filed against the kernel
package are ignored.
- just that the default bugzilla assignee is a disabled account, so it
is unclear whether email for *that* account goes anywhere. There are
obviously other accounts that are CC'd on bugs.

Fabio
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