Amd

[Mark Linimon]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:03:12PM +0200, Kai Storbeck wrote:
> The valid tag "amd" doesn't refer to a scsi driver but to the  
> automount daemon [amd(8)].

OK, fixed.

> On the NFS tag I found 2 problem tickets both referring to NFS  
> stalling on NIS lookups albeit on different stages in the loading:  
> conf/17540 and conf/22308. They are both quite old, and if I would be  
> in the position of fixing bugs, I'd ask them to resubmit it. Its 2008.
> 
> Is there a policy on old tickets on old issues that really should have  
> a followup for a later release?

Not a "policy" as such, more a set of guidelines.

What we have found is that many bugs tend to persist :-(  thus, closing
them merely because they are old does not necessarily help anything.

What we normally do is to set them to 'feedback' and in that process
send mail to the submitter asking if it is still a problem.  About
half the time the email bounces, about 25% of the time the problem
still exists, and then there are variations.

If you'd like to chip in, feel free to send a followup to each of
them, and then remind me, so I can set the state to 'feedback'.

Thanks.

mcl