Old bug reports

[Carl Ansell]

I found this interesting, I hadn't really thought about it like that. It also seems that dealing with old bugs is not as clear cut as I had imagined. I'll start taking a look at some bugs, I like the thought that I am helping make Ubuntu and GNU/Linux in general better.



Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:54:50 -0700
From: brian at ubuntu.com
To: ubuntu-bugsquad at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Old bug reports

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:01:23PM +0100, Carl Ansell wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> 
> I saw a bug report earlier that was marked as confirmed in Dapper, and
> fix released or invalid (can't remember which)in Edgy and there was a
> comment stating the issue was fixed in this release. The fix has not
> been backported, so what would be the best practice in this situation?
> 
> 
> In realise that looking at old bugs might not seem like the most
> productive thing to do, but I have only just joined the bugsquad and
> feel that I am still learning about the whole bug reporting and
> triaging process. As such I think this would be a more simple thing to
> start with, given that many bugs have been inactive for years and
> would be less of an issue should I make a mistake.
 
This is really interesting, thanks for bringing this up.  Personally, I
think working with old bugs will actually teach you less and be less
productive.  Because the bug report is older it is much less likely to
be active - you could set the bug report to Incomplete and never receive
a response.  Additionally, a more recent bug is more likely to receive
comments from other triagers and developments which may teach you
something.  Finally, one of the best ways to learn (for me at least) is
by making mistakes.
 
So I suggest working with newer bugs if you have any doubts about what
the right thing to do is or how to proceed with a bug please ask your
questions on this mailing list or in #ubuntu-bugs on freenode.
 
Sincerely,
--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master

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