A couple of changes to note

[Wolfger]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you find a bug with no response after
> 4+ weeks, please remind the reporter that we're waiting.  If, two weeks after
> the reminder, they still do not respond, then it can be closed ("can", not
> "must").

Speaking as somebody who does a lot of invalidating of old bugs, I
have to say that responses from the submitter are the exception, not
the rule. Maybe (and I'm being generous) 10% of these bugs see life
again. So this (proposed?) change only adds to the work load without
providing any extra value. Under the 4-weeks-to-dead system, a triager
only touches the bug once, and if the bug is still alive, the
submitter touches the bug once. Under this new system, triagers will
have to touch the bug twice if they are dead (don't play with dead
bugs!), but the process for it's-not-dead-yet bugs hasn't actually
changed at all.


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