Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:

> > They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go
> > through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version.  I think that
> > you'd find most GStreamer bug triagers to mark them as obsolete if they
> > apply only to the 0.8 backend though, and I don't know if that's what
> > you want in this case.
>
> I don't think marking them as obsolete is okay right now. I'd use the
> status whiteboard so we can easily know they're only happening with the
> 0.8 backend. (Or maybe create a gstreamer0.8 component, but this is
> ugly).

See http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2005/09/30/0 for more details
where I'm coming from, but I'm basically going to disagree with
Vincent here -- I think it should be perfectly fine to mark all those
bugs as obsolete and tell the reporter they are free to reopen if they
experience the same issue under 0.10.  I think which versions are
considered obsolete ought to be up to the maintainers (though we'd
appreciate a note in the product specific guidelines, linked to from
the browse page in bugzilla, so that triagers can help).  There is a
tradeoff that needs to be made and we don't want to be too agressive
just closing out 'old' bugs, but I think we tend to err far on the
side off keeping too many bugs open that just aren't helpful.

Just my $0.02.