Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Old Bugs with no responce

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:05:05 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:20:34PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> > I'm against an automatic closing policy, since there is no "waiting for
> > reply" state, but a closing policy based on severity of the bug may be
> > usefull.
> >
> > Severity	Closed after no reply
> > Blocker	never
> > Critical	never
>
> If a bug reporter doesn't come back on a bug that he deems blocker or
> critical, then it most likely wasn't really that important in the first
> place.

Then we should be demoting that report which makes it elegable for
closing. Or we decide it's a blocker/critical indeed and leave it open,
even if the original reporter doesn't come back.

Thanx,
Jaap