Re: Bug 10644

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> Josh Barrow <josh eazel com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Regarding bug number 10644.  I feel that the language that I used in bug
> > 10644 was quite harsh, and I would like to explain myself.
> > 
> > I certainly didn't intend to discourage people from filing bug reports.
> > The bug that was filed contained minimal information, was filed in May
> > (Almost all bugs have been fixed that were reported that far back), and
> > was not reproducible.  I did not, and will not ever, close a bug before
> > I try to reproduce it.
> > 
> > Again, I apologize for the harsh language.
> 
> What's wrong with this ? Normally people just close such bugs without
> even replying.
> 

The Nautilus team doesn't want to discourage bug reporters, and it was
probably excessive to say all the bugs were "useless". Although that
is technically true in some sense (none of them was all three of
coherent, reproducible and a non-duplicate) this user went to a fair
bit of effort to track down the problem.

 - Maciej