[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS bugs

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Bernhard Reiter ha scritto:
> Partly it is, but the technical values should come first.
> It is better to conserve bugs that are not fixed then
> to clear them out for marketing purposes.

Right. No real bug should be cleared, but I think we're now in the
opposite position: we got a bug infestation!

> If the stable version is considered stable by many many users
> then a clearing policy for old bugs in an old version is fine.
> It mostly depends how it is done.

I do not think anybody considers grass5.x the main stable version nowadays.

> What I did in the past sometimes was to ask the original reported
> if he or she tried a new version and that we might close the bug report
> after a time period, if there is no response.
> All if I believed the bug was gone for the new stable series.

Agreed. I tried this last year (or maybe longer ago?), and I got very
few replies. Apparently there are individuals who casually try grass,
get a problem, write a report, then disappear. This is what we have to
get rid of, I think.

All the best.
pc
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