Re: random thought about bug-buddy (in the 'very long term thinking' category)

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, John Fleck wrote:

> It's not that it's embarassing, it's that it's a huge waste of time.
>
> The whole point of bug-buddy is to help us find and fix bugs. A bug report on
> a GNOME 1.2 bug is generally useless (or even 1.0, we still get those), so
> bug-buddy *is* obsolete at this point - the user just doesn't know it.

	Yeah okay, so we know that 1.0 and 1.2 bugs are useless to use
now, but who's to say what will happen in the future. Who's to say
that bug reports from 2.0.17 won't be of use to *someone* two years
after the release ? Who's to say that no-one will still be fixing bugs
and supporting it ?

	We only know when bug reports from a certain version are
obselete, when they have actually become obsolete. So why would we try
and predict the future and enforce this client side? Why can't
bugzilla not check the bug buddy version number and reject it if
neccessary there ?

Good Luck,
Mark.

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