your RESOLVED->CLOSED changes

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

>> I would also like to posit that quite a number of bugs will then stay
>> RESOLVED indefinitely. If someone, say, fixes a bug on mn10200 or some
>> other obscure target, who's going to double-check after a release and 
>> put in into CLOSED?
>
> Doesn't that prove the lack of QA, and demonstrate the need for it? If a 
> fix hasn't been checked, it *should* remain resolved-but-unclosed 
> indefinately until someone checks it. Otherwise, why bother checking 
> fixes at all?

Yes and no. Yes, because in a sense you're right but it's just a fact that 
we're developer starved and don't have enough people working on the rarer 
platforms.

No, since at least in principle each patch should go in with a testcase, 
so the very same developer will re-check every time he runs the testsuite.
The initial check whether a patch is sane is done by peer review.

W.


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