Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: SV: [Ethereal-dev] Old Bugs with no responce

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Anders Broman wrote:
> Hi,
> Take http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=481 as an example
> last entry was 3 month ago. It's written on 0.10.12 which is quite old now.
>
> I don't think we have received other reports about this problem, how can it
> ever be resolved without new input?
>
>   
That's the point.

I've already closed some bugs where the reporter didn't respond for more 
than 2 months (my private threshold value for this :-), but using 1 
month seems to be enough. Usually, the reporter will respond within a 
week or never.

Even if a bug is still in the code, it won't help anything/anyone to 
have a bug report about it, but none of the developers can reproduce it 
and the reporter don't provide any more information which could lead to 
some new ideas.

The reporter can also reopen a bug if he wants to respond anytime later.

Getting rid of "dead bugs" also makes it much easier to keep an eye on 
the remaining ones so I would vote for closing "unresponsive" bugs.

BTW: The severity doesn't make any real difference in my eyes. If it's 
clear what to do but nobody finds the time to do it, just leave it open. 
If it's unclear what to do against it and the reporter (and anyone else) 
doesn't have a good idea for some time, just close it.

Regards, ULFL