Steve Grubb wrote:
When bugs are closed, they disappear from the reporter's bz
frontpage.
That's a Bugzilla misfeature (not to say "bug"). Bugzilla should default to
showing closed bugs. Not just for this case, but also to avoid duplicate
reports for:
* NOTABUG reports (which keep getting duplicates because people don't notice
the bugs closed as NOTABUG),
* issues which are fixed in supported releases, but not in the EOL release
the user is still using,
* issues which are fixed in Rawhide, but cannot be fixed in existing
releases for technical reasons
etc.
Its far easier to leave the bug open and close it when the fixed
package
gets pushed through bodi.
That assumes we know when the bug got fixed in the first place, which isn't
always the case (see my reply to Till Maas).
Yes. Many times when I am evaluating a package I look in bz to see
what
bugs are open against it as a test sniff of what its quality might be
like. If the maintainer is closing everything as upstream bugs, I might be
installing a steaming hot pile of awful and not knowing its got lots of
problems.
Then you need to fix your search to include closed bugs.
Also by closing unresolved bugs you are inviting duplicate bug
reports.
Because Bugzilla is broken. See above. Let's fix Bugzilla.
Kevin Kofler