Update -> no sound

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed May 13 13:51:30 UTC 2009


On Wed, 13 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Those bugz URLs would be a hell of alot more useful if they skipped
>> bugs marked 'closed' by default - make it optional to show them if
>> desired. It just doesn't scale currently for packages with 1000's of
>> closed bugs :-(
>
> I disagree. IMHO hiding closed bugs by default is the most annoying
> bug/misfeature of Bugzilla and a few other bug trackers. It leads to people
> filing duplicates because they don't see that their issue already got fixed
> (they just don't have the fix yet for whatever reason), was found not to be
> a valid bug or was found to be an issue elsewhere (upstream/downstream/in
> third-party software/wherever).

Showing recently (think of "last 3-6 months" or maybe even "for currently 
maintained distro versions") closed bugs might indeed help avoiding 
gazillion dupes on some occasions but having to stare at all the closed 
bugs since Fedora Core 1 era by default serves little purpose IMO.

 	- Panu -




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