Old bug reports

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:59:33PM -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:45:10 +0100
> Carl Ansell <afccarl1994 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > There are many old reports in launchpad that apply to unsupported versions of Ubuntu, such as Dapper and Edgy.
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> > As these releases are no longer supported, can these be marked as invalid?
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> > I feel it would 'clean up' the bugs in launchpad and make it clear which bugs are still relevant, but as someone new to the bugsquad, I don't want to start messing with things that I shouldn't mess with.
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> Any bug should be verified as no longer valid in the latest supported
> or development version before it is marked as invalid. The fact that
> the bug was reported in dapper or edgy does not make automatically make
> it invalid. If the application is still in use, and still contains the
> bug, it is still a valid bug.
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> A bug in any version that is fixed in the development version can be
> marked as fixed-release. We even have a standard response for that at 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Fixed_in_Development_release_while_still_existing_in_a_previous_release

Charlie is absolutely correct on this point.  Bugs are assumed to affect
the latest release of Ubuntu and be carried forward from release to
release.  Subsequently, every bug should be tested with the latest
release of Ubuntu.  If we really want to make Ubuntu better that will
involve fixing all the bugs rather than just closing them because they
are old.

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Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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