closing older bug reports without looking = bad practice ?

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:07:51AM -0500, John Ellson wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > >- When bugs have been in NEEDINFO states for _months_.
 > >  If the user has got tired reporting 'bug still there',
 > >  there's not a lot more I can do, and closing these bugs
 > >  does 'wake up' a bunch of dormant bugs.
 > >  
 > A problem with the NEEDINFO states is that the bug disappears from the 
 > "my bugs" query in bugzilla,
 > so if the user misses the email (or puts it off and then forgets) the 
 > bug is probably lost.

Bugs I've filed that have been put into that state by other developers
have definitly shown up in my bug list.

File a bug on bugzilla?

		Dave