On 8/10/2019 6:10 AM, Exil wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 August 2019 at 07:57:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/4/2019 7:26 AM, Exil wrote:
>>> The bigger problem is how it is completely unmanaged. There's no one that reviews the reported issues and sets a severity level. That's all set by whoever makes the report. I've come across a few issues that are solved, either that they always worked and were never really issues. Or they were inadvertently fixed by something else.
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>> Did you update their bugzilla status?
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> Nope, I've closed reports in the past that were duplicates, had no replies or any interest.

Closing issues that have no replies or interest is not helpful. I asked if you updated the status for issues that are solved or always worked.

> I'm not going to make changes to it when anyone can undo those changes.

I'd reopen any issues that were closed just because they were old, too.

On Saturday, 10 August 2019 at 21:22:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/10/2019 6:10 AM, Exil wrote:
>> On Saturday, 10 August 2019 at 07:57:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 6/4/2019 7:26 AM, Exil wrote:
>>>> The bigger problem is how it is completely unmanaged. There's no one that reviews the reported issues and sets a severity level. That's all set by whoever makes the report. I've come across a few issues that are solved, either that they always worked and were never really issues. Or they were inadvertently fixed by something else.
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>>> Did you update their bugzilla status?
>> 
>> Nope, I've closed reports in the past that were duplicates, had no replies or any interest.
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> Closing issues that have no replies or interest is not helpful. I asked if you updated the status for issues that are solved or always worked.

That's not true in the general case: there are many issues where you can't reach the reporter and he didn't leave a way to reproduce the issue. Then, there's simply no hope to fix the issue.

On 8/10/2019 2:31 PM, Seb wrote:
> That's not true in the general case: there are many issues where you can't reach the reporter and he didn't leave a way to reproduce the issue. Then, there's simply no hope to fix the issue.

That's different. I was talking about closing issues just because they were old.

On Monday, 3 June 2019 at 20:17:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Back in the 80s, I kept a bug list as a simple text file (yes, I'm that old, I wasn't even using email yet as a bug database).

I do this and I'm not even old.

Of course I still use things like Github Issues etc. but for some projects it's just easier to do it in ex. a text file because there are so few bugs.

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:58:42AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/3/2019 2:44 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:17:02PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > I guess no good deed goes unpunished. I haven't changed my mind, however, about hiding the bug list for marketing porpoises.
> >
> > Marketing is run by porpoises?  That... explains a lot. :-D
> 
> Just chicken to see if anyone reads my posts :-)

That ... eggsplains a few other things too(!).


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