Re: Lightening bug maintainer load

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

>> It might be ok to have an advisory mail to say that a later version
>> is available.
>
>And advise the user that if the bug is still there to report it with the
>new version. Otherwise the number of repeat bugs is getting far too high.
>
>Im not talking here about saying '0.97 is out so send mail for 0.96' but
>'1.4 is out start advising people to update when they report 1.0 bugs)

Sounds good, but you could also argue that bug reports for "unsupported" or
unstable configuratons should also be dumped (perhaps unless the report
originated from a known gnome-hacker).

IMO an automatically generated advisory is a good idea for any bug report for
any unsupported version (whether for an outdated or unstable release), but if
there's an easy way to view and then manually dump bugs for a given version
(or versions), that offers some possibility for a quick review by the
maintainer before dumping the bug reports (on the premise that people are
smarter than programs!)

Colm.