From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Subject: Re: kernel bugzilla is FPOS (was: Re: "buggy cmd640" message followed by soft lockup) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:08:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20071125200800.GA9808@gallifrey> References: <200711222007.12497.elendil@planet.nl> <200711251411.16034.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071125134945.GB14171@stusta.de> <200711252107.23926.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711252107.23926.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Adrian Bunk , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org * Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote: (many levels of quote) > > > > * Bugs that sit in NEEDINFO state for more than i.e. one month should be > > > > automatically closed. > > > > > > I agree that we probably should do something like this. > > > > Not automatically. > > OK, say "as a rule". The only thing I would say is that a reporter can be in a situation after a while where they no longer have access to the original machine; if the bug was originally believed to be real and triaged then it seems to make sense to differentiate that from a bug that is just closed, just so people can know there is an issue with a configuration. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/