[OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs silliness

[John Smith]

On 11 April 2010 20:42, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Worse, there is no feedback to the original bug reporter, who won't even get
> a message saying that his bug has been rejected.  The bug is then deleted after
> seven days, so the information is lost.  I wonder how many other contributions
> have been lost in this way?
>
> Surely a bug in OSB should not be marked as 'resolved' until the map has been
> updated.

What you've described is probably another good reason that OSM should
have something of it's own or better integrate with OSB so these kinds
of things can trigger emails if the bug is fixed, if it needs
reopening because it was closed incorrectly etc etc etc.