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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

if it really bores you I could write a patch and upload in 20m.  If you
would come to DebConf you could bribe me with some $DRINK.

My point is that beeing a scientist should not be a weak excuse to write
lousy code.  Not verifying the number of arguments is simply bad also
from a users point of view.

Please cope with the issue on your bug tracking pages for another couple
of weeks and it will be solved.

Kind regards

      Andreas.


On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:12:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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
> 

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