On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:20:12PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> Hi David,
> Just a small brook for washing yet another
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth_labour:_Augean_stables
> ;)
> 

LOL!

And you are right.

Dave


> My advice would be to inspect the entries updated these last two years, and
> if still relevant confirm (or fix) else close.
> Fortunately, there are not so much of them.
> 
> Then I would close all the rest (resolution = timeout).
> Other teams including Pharo have such a policy.
> 
> Generally, I hate when my opened issues are closed like that, because I
> mostly don't use Pharo, so I consider these as pure gifts.
> There is a side effect that I'm not encouraged to report anymore, and I
> rarely reopen them, because I have no time to check.
> There is no such thing as gift-support-service.
> 
> But, in the end, Pharo team is right: accumulation of rotten issues is not
> sustainable
> - either the issue is important, and it must/will be reopened
> - or no one cares and the issue can be closed.
> 
> If Heracles himself wants to inspect and resolve the timed-out issues, he
> would just have to set a filter with a few clicks.
> But there's no hurry, the Augean stables had to wait 30 years...
> 
> 2018-04-06 21:58 GMT+02:00 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> 
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > It is really good to see those Mantis issues being addressed. Thank you!
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > > Hi Marcel, Tobias,
> > > I encountered a bug, when playing a sound, the default SoundService
> > (class
> > > inst var) was not a class (BasedSoundService) but an instance (a
> > > BasedSoundService).
> > >
> > > Why?
> > > Because, there is a TileMorphTest>>setUp that remember which is the
> > > default, then tries to restore it in tearDown.
> > > It used to work.
> > >
> > > But, in between, SoundService default and defaultOrNil have been
> > > re-defined
> > > so as to answer an instance rather than a class.
> > >
> > > Thus, when we play the tests, we can no more play the sounds...
> > >
> > > I hesitate to open a Mantis issue, no one read nor close them, so the bug
> > > report is only here for the moment.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >

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