[GRASS5] bugs

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:15:53AM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:19:14AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:30:00PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > ...
> > > > > I think we need to have some sort of "confirmed", "unreproducable",
> > > > > or "new" tag column for bugs, so we can separate out valid bugs from
> > > > > misconfigured systems at least, giving a more realistic bug number.
> > > > 
> > > > or, old and unreproducible bugs could be just squashed?
> > > 
> > > GRASS is a huge program with many rare bugs. One can never test all
> > > platforms/setups, so you can never say unreproducible==mistaken report.
> > > Even if it is a mistake, if one person did it, others might as well, and
> > > the others in the future might figure it out & post a solution.
> > > Just deleting the contributed user experience would be a big mistake,
> > > IMO.
> > 
> > That's generally right, but RT should not become a museum for
> > unresolved bugs of old GRASS versions.
> 
> I agree with both statements, but I think Hamish also agreed that
> we need to clean out, what we can clean out. 
> 
> Markus: Can empty the very old BUGS file from CVS then?

Please do whatever is necessary.

> Can we completely empty it? I only want to make sure because it says:
> You are maintaining it

I was maintaining it...

> and I don't know if there is any bug in there
> that is not in the RT. You would know best.

No idea. It's not unlikely that bugs are not present in RT. Someone
has to verify carefully (I have no time for that at the moment, also
I am no longer focusing on < 6.0).

Markus