GNOME 3.4 released

Posted Mar 31, 2012 19:30 UTC (Sat) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: GNOME 3.4 released by ovitters
Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released

Sure. I did a quick search for bugs closed with the OBSOLETE resolution, sorted from newest to oldest, and found several recent examples.

This one demonstrates particular rudeness: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671744

These just use the stock template I mentioned:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672014
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671962
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671894
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671856
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671316
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671099

Valid reasons to close a bug: "can't reproduce that in the current version", or "the entire subsystem you reported the bug against doesn't exist anymore in the current version, and its replacement doesn't have that problem". Invalid reasons to close a bug: "there's a new version and we don't care about the old one anymore", without actually testing that the new version doesn't have the problem, especially when it turns out that it *does*.