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by Mathias on Tuesday 24/Oct/2006, @22:57

"Close bugs which insufficient information and which are open for quite a long time"

and what about bugs that are open for a long time because no one gives a rats ass about it? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17513 comes to mind.

opened back in 12-2000 through the import of old bugs from the old kde bugtracker.
3552 votes. 72 comments from users who want that fixed (or rather, that feature implemented), and no sensible comments from kmail developers, other than some pseudo-philiosophical debate about the ethics of "tampering" with emails after they have been delivered.

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by Bram Schoenmakers on Tuesday 24/Oct/2006, @23:20

Just take some breath and read again:

Close bugs with insufficient information _AND_ which are open for quite a long time.

Bug 17513 does not apply for both conditions so it won't be closed. It's about bugs with a oneliner "it crashes" and there's no further information available (despite the fact we asked for it).

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by cl on Tuesday 24/Oct/2006, @23:57

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17513 is a feature wish not a bug report. So what does it have to do with the article???

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by anonymous on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @00:05

I want search folders with date options and mail tagging is interesting too.

And no crashes and speed improvements in Imap.

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by André on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @01:36

Did you file bug reports/feature requests for that? Or did you vote for existing reports that ask/report the same? Did you provide additional information as well? ("It crashes" is NOT usefull for debugging!)

If so: good. After this bug squatting you'll stand a better chance of being heard. If not, there is no way you can be helped. Reporting issues on the dot is not productive.

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by cl on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @03:41

I want world peace, end to poverty and icecream too...

How about not demanding things from volunteers???

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by Ian Monroe on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @09:27

There's really nothing wrong with asking things of volunteer open source developers. It only annoys me when folks are like "stop what your doing and do this instead."

Granted dot.kde comments are hardly the time or place for it..

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by Robert Knight on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @16:50

Requests ("I would like...") are acceptable. Demands ("I want") are not.

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Re: now thats an easy way out...
by Kevin Krammer on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @05:09

One should, however, keep in mind that language barriers and cultural differences can make a request look like a demand.

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