canconfirm?

Fallenblood · Post by **Fallenblood** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:20 am

How does one get a 'canconfirm' permission on Bugzilla? I could certainly use one, I've been waiting for some bugs (like 16955) forever.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:25 am

Fallenblood wrote:How does one get a 'canconfirm' permission on Bugzilla? I could certainly use one, I've been waiting for some bugs (like 16955) forever.

If you reported the bug then being able to confirm it defeats the purpose... if someone else wants to try to reproduce your problem and are successful they can post a comment saying "confirmed for me too" or vote and that will change the status.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:24 am

jeffz wrote:
Fallenblood wrote:How does one get a 'canconfirm' permission on Bugzilla? I could certainly use one, I've been waiting for some bugs (like 16955) forever.
If you reported the bug then being able to confirm it defeats the purpose... if someone else wants to try to reproduce your problem and are successful they can post a comment saying "confirmed for me too" or vote and that will change the status.

Whether a bug is confirmed or not has nothing to do with whether it gets fixed anyway. I've had unconfirmed bugs fixed, and confirmed ones still sitting there. And four months is not "forever." There are far older bugs in bugzilla.

What I do notice in the bug you mentioned is a request for a regression test. If you really want to help move things along, run it. If the bug isn't important enough to the original reporter to make the time to run a regression test, why should it be important to anyone else?

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:42 pm

dimesio wrote:

jeffz wrote:

Fallenblood wrote:

How does one get a 'canconfirm' permission on Bugzilla? I could certainly use one, I've been waiting for some bugs (like 16955 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16955)) forever.

If you reported the bug then being able to confirm it defeats the purpose... if someone else wants to try to reproduce your problem and are successful they can post a comment saying "confirmed for me too" or vote and that will change the status.

Whether a bug is confirmed or not has nothing to do with whether it gets fixed anyway. I've had unconfirmed bugs fixed, and confirmed ones still sitting there. And four months is not "forever." There are far older bugs in bugzilla.

What I do notice in the bug you mentioned is a request for a regression test. If you really want to help move things along, run it. If the bug isn't important enough to the original reporter to make the time to run a regression test, why should it be important to anyone else?

Roseanne:

Sometimes people do not want to place their systems 'at risk' and
sometimes they just don't have the time. Maybe you could assist by
running the test for them (given a publically available program)? I
would, but I don't run Linux, so my results may not be correct for the
situation.

James McKenzie

Post by **dimesio** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:22 pm

Sometimes people do not want to place their systems 'at risk' and
sometimes they just don't have the time. Maybe you could assist by
running the test for them (given a publically available program)? I
would, but I don't run Linux, so my results may not be correct for the
situation.

James McKenzie

There is nothing about a regression test that places anyone's system "at risk," and people can always find time for things they consider truly important.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:28 pm

dimesio wrote:

Sometimes people do not want to place their systems 'at risk' and
sometimes they just don't have the time. Maybe you could assist by
running the test for them (given a publically available program)? I
would, but I don't run Linux, so my results may not be correct for the
situation.

James McKenzie

There is nothing about a regression test that places anyone's system "at risk," and people can always find time for things they consider truly important.

I agree that a regression test for Wine should not be a cause for
concern and that some folks think that this is 'paid' support. The last
statement is not true. This is a FOSS project and support is provided,
mostly, by unpaid volunteers. You and I are such and I attempt to help
those with MacIntosh/MacOSX issues. You seem to be keeping up with how
well Dragon Naturally Speaking works.

James McKenzie

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