Re: Policy proposal: Dropping 2.16 reports



ahoj,

Am Samstag, den 15.09.2007, 12:15 -0500 schrieb Diego Escalante Urrelo:
> I was wandering around in Bugzilla and found some reports from 2.16,
> mostly crash reports that are also incomplete stacks.
> I asked about this on #bugs and Andre said he would give me lots of
> beers and pizza if I propose this, so I'm making sure I have food and
> drinks next GUADEC. :)

did i? damn! :)

> It's not really usual to backport fixes to two branches

yes, and the distros can always do that if they are interested.

> Bad: Some people might be using long-time support distros or distros
> with not so frequent releases like SuSE (GUADEC's cd has 2.16) or
> Debian stable (etch has 2.18),

again, this is the problem of those distros.

>  they could feel like they have wasted time filling a report if we
> were going to ignore it anyway.

we could inform the reporters that they are free to submit bug reports
to the bug tracking system of their distribution where their GNOME
release is perhaps still supported, but not to GNOME itself.

andre

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