[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#715703: Bug#715703: Please do not close issues that remain

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:36:10PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I do not think that we should close any issue that remains only because
> chances that it will be fixed are low.  IMHO this is disrespecting the
> work the effort people were doing with the Mayhem project.
> 
> Verifying the number of argument and exiting with a proper exit code is
> a beginners homework task.  I do not think that we should squash such
> low hanging fruits for people who migth start helping with simple tasks.
> The [Mayhem] tag should be sufficient to enable others ignoring at
> their comfort.

Hi Andreas,

my issue is that on my DDPO page (https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=plessy),
BWA shows up with one bug (this one), which attracts my attention for nothing.

The Mayhem project reported tons of bugs, and I think that it is fair to close
those for which there is no sign that they will be fixed.  I would have of
course forwarded this bug to upstream's bug tracker, alas it does not have one.

I think that we have enough low-hanging fruits that are more intersting to give
to newcomers.  As a BWA user, I think that if we fix that bug, the probability
that this will help anybody on Earth is very low.

Note that there are other packages where I have reported the Mayhem bugs and
they were promply fixed.  I think that now is the time to let some of the
leftovers go out of our radar.  I would like to keep the DDPO page useable
as a TODO list, with the goal of having zero bugs in most packages.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles