Re: Bugzilla for GNOME is ready for Beta test

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> So, you'd prefer to personally take responsibility for determining
> what are the bad bugs for all 10,000 or so open bugs, then simply have
> to take care of closing 200 bad bugs through bugzilla for
> gtop/libgtop?
> 
> Note that with bugzilla when you mark a bug as a duplicate of another
> bug, you only see one of them, so if you have 100 reports of a single
> problem, you can quickly mark them all of duplicates of one bug then,
> once you've fixed that bug or determined that it was already closed,
> it is a trival matter to close it and send a helpful message to all
> 100 reporters.
> 
> This is better than having the 100 reports simply vanish into space.

Hmm, yes. You convinced me.

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