proper procedure regarding bug reports

[Patrick Freundt]

To avoid misunderstandings I would like to ask the list in a bit more
detailed kind of way for the proper procedure regarding bug reports, -
because I am lacking official feedback regarding bug #500601, and on
the one side I am aware that we had christmas and new year
celebrations, people are generally busy with many things, etc. and on
the other side I would like to move forward with several other topics
that indirectly rely on this bug report.

When you are sure that a software is not behaving as expected and you
easily managed to reproduce that behaviour isolated from other
influences, then how much time should you give to a bug report till
you try a next step?

What would be such a next step?

P.