Re: "morality" question

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:14, Heather Flanagan wrote:
> I'm starting to go through some of the Really Old bugs.  Is there 
> anything seriously objectionable about lowering the priority and 
> perhaps dropping in a note to ask that someone verify if this is still 
> a problem, and if not, we close it?

There's nothing wrong with dropping a note in an old bug and asking if
it's still relevant.  I wouldn't change the priority unless I had a
separate reason, though.

> (Examples:  41190)

For bugs regarding FIXME's and such, you can sometimes search the code. 
In this example, the FIXME is apparently still there (although it refers
to bugzilla.eazel.com instead of bugzilla.gnome.org--which is sort of
another bug); you can see it in
gnome-vfs/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-result.c:
  GnomeVFSResult
  gnome_vfs_result_from_h_errno (void)
  {
    switch (h_errno) {
      case HOST_NOT_FOUND:  return GNOME_VFS_ERROR_HOST_NOT_FOUND;
      case NO_ADDRESS:      return GNOME_VFS_ERROR_HOST_HAS_NO_ADDRESS;
      case TRY_AGAIN:       /* FIXME bugzilla.eazel.com 1190 */
      case NO_RECOVERY:     /* FIXME bugzilla.eazel.com 1190 */
      default:
                            return GNOME_VFS_ERROR_GENERIC;
    }
  }


Hope that helps,
Elijah