Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

[Carl Gaudreault]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Carl Gaudreault
> <carl.gaudreault at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>So It seems Carl G. has been closing several bugs across 
multiple
>>>components without comment recently.  Hmm.    Not cool.
>>
>> -jef
>>
>> I gave the reason why i closed it.
> 
> Are you saying that you comment in 27 requesting the report file a
> report upstream bug in bug 531464  is meant to be taking as 
rationale
> for closing the fedora ticket as WONTFIX?
> 
> Its not clear from my reading of the comment that is your 
intention.
> Nor is it clear to me that this is an appropriate best practise to do
> in general even if this is what you intended. Doubly-so if the person
> doing the closures isn't listed as a co-maintainer or an upstream
> developer.
> 
> I certainly leave bugs in an open state until I or one of my
> co-maintainers makes a judgement call which mandates a wontfix
> resolution.  This looks like a real issue..a tough one to track
> down..but still potentially fixable. Neither cantfix nor wontfix seem
> to apply... nor does notabug. There's nothing here in the 
commentary
> that suggests to me this is a wontfix situation if someone was able 
to
> provide an upstreamable patch that could be integrated into our
> packages.
> 
> 
>>
>> Also, RHBZ number you are referring to?
> 
> Do you want a complete listing?  I can talk to you about the 
pattern
> of behaviour offlist. I have concerns about some of your other 
recent
> wontifx/notabug closures.  Your insufficient information closures 
seem
> to be reasonable as well as more than reasonably justified in the
> comments.
> 
> -jef

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531464#c29

>So It seems Carl G. has been closing several bugs across multiple
>components without comment recently.  Hmm.    Not cool.

Are you talking about the other bug report related to Empathy i 
reported months ago and was closed upstream? "several bugs 
across multiple components".. sure ;)
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