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Date:      Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:15:21 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Mike Remski" <mremski@comcast.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting PRs fixed [ was: Re: The future of fortune(6) ]
Message-ID:  <3894.1512130521@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <C8FB6D11-043A-4F62-BEE4-B95DDD3F35A4@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <C8FB6D11-043A-4F62-BEE4-B95DDD3F35A4@FreeBSD.org>, "Kristof Pr=
ovost" writes:

>Good bug reports are enormously valuable. A bug report with a clear =

>reproduction scenario is vastly more likely to get fixed (quickly).

In the Varnish Cache project I have set a very clear policy for
bugreports:  If they are not actionable (after interacting with the
submitter), we close them, even if they are indicative of a bug.

A bugreport which says "Crash under circumstances unknown" has no
value for the developers.

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