[Nouveau] Bug cleanup

Christ-Jan Wijtmans cj.wijtmans at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 16:54:44 PDT 2013


250 inbox mails i finally feel wanted.
On Aug 18, 2013 6:54 PM, "Ilia Mirkin" <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In an effort to get a better handle on nouveau's outstanding issues,
> I'm going to close all bugs that haven't seen any updates since 2011.
> I asked a core group of nouveau developers about this, and none of
> them seemed to object. Depending on how this goes, we may do the same
> thing up to the end of 2012, but that was more contentious.
>
> A lot of these bugs are pre-KMS, the driver's been
> moved/changed/rewritten several times since they were filed, so it's
> quite likely that the issues have been fixed, or at the very least,
> require a re-test. As bug reporters tend to disappear after this much
> time (different email, hardware died, etc), we decided that just
> closing them outright would be the right move. They can always be
> reopened if the issues persist, but the onus is on the bug reporter to
> do so.
>
> As an unfortunate side-effect, the list is about to get ~200 emails,
> one for each bug I close. Sorry for the spam, but I don't know of a
> way around it. (If you do know a way around it, I won't be doing this
> for ~an hour, let me know asap.)
>
>   -ilia
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