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Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Re: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Post by diafygi »

EDIT: The original title of this post was "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" (it has been involuntarily changed by the mods).

Here's the list (all marked Obsolete silently by e...@google.com):

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1257

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1211

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2361

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1730

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2207

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2845

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1285

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2305

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2412

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1089

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1698

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2318

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1041

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63793

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1284

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1106

Re: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Post by gcb0 »

all my bugs from android 2.3 (still heavily used in the us and out) up to android 4.2 were closed as obsolete.

several are somewhat fixed on 5.0 (most by removing the feature) but nothing about support even nexus devices from 2.5 years ago.

3 were security ones confirmed by a few comments.

I've been getting obsolete emails on my low profile bugs since November all the way to Dec 25...

Google just gave up. i think nobody there care about users after yahoo stole JBQueru. they now focus exclusively on profit and easy/fun work (i.e. full focus on new versions because maintaining old, stable software is the job of interns)

Re: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Post by sarciszewski »

diafygi wrote: post #2

EDIT: The original title of this post was "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" (it has been involuntarily changed by the mods). Here's the list (all marked Obsolete silently by e...@google.com): https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1257 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1211 https://code.g…

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/li...

cevans => cev... (Chris Evans is known to be part of Project Zero.)

Given their censorship scheme, I can't help but wonder if e...@google.com means eric@google.com?

If so, the culprit is likely Eric Schmidt.

EDIT: Okay, can anyone explain WHY they're downvoting this?

Re: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Post by cryptoz »

Google's handling of Android bugs is unpleasant and difficult to swallow. The QA seems minimal and little or no attention is paid to user filed bugs. The barometer on the Nexus 5 is still broken after a year+ of software updates. Infuriating. The bug with hundreds of stars is marked obsolete! The barometer is still broken.

I'd like to debug and fix it but other things have priority, and I don't feel confident that if I were able to fix, that my change would be merged. Oy!

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62938

Edit: I should mention, they did fix part of it after about 6 months in the wild (the part where the barometer crashed all the sensors). What they haven't fixed is that the barometer doesn't actually reliably work.

Edit #2: Interestingly, I might have to eat some of my words. I'm just testing on 5.0.1 for the first time and haven't been able to reproduce the issues present from 4.0 through 5.0. Maybe it's actually fixed in 5.0.1!! Of course, I've only been testing for 10 minutes and it could still surface. For reference, the remaining bug is that the barometer periodically reports seemingly random values. 5mb, 730mb, 1004mb, 740mb, 300mb, 3mb, 750mb, etc. Now it seems to be stable and generally reporting the same values. Interesting.

Edit #3: A pastebin showing that it seems to be working after a few minutes of use. http://pastebin.com/RdBqbWzC

Edit #4: If you're curious why I care, it's for PressureNet to make a better weather forecast :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

Re: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25

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Post by mfisher87 »

gcb0 wrote: post #3

all my bugs from android 2.3 (still heavily used in the us and out) up to android 4.2 were closed as obsolete. several are somewhat fixed on 5.0 (most by removing the feature) but nothing about support even nexus devices from 2.5 years ago. 3 were security ones confirmed by a few comments. I've been getting obsolete emails on my low profile bugs since November all the way to Dec 25... Google just gave up. i think nob…

I started seeing obsolete emails early this month for a bug I've been tracking:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8839

It's extremely frustrating to have an issue thread full of agreeing constructive comments from users marked obsolete with no comment from the developers, when the issue is still annoying many users. It definitely gives the impression that Google gave up or does not care about users.

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