One of the assignments in the Teaching Open Source book was to find the oldest bug in my chosen open source assignment and write up a little summary about the bug and why it has not yet been resolved.
Since my project was Banshee, I did an advanced search in Bugzilla and checked for bugs starting at its creation year back in 2005. After a few searches, I found that the oldest open bug was dated back to October 22, 2007. To see the bug report, just click on this link.
The bug had to do with an explicit red tag showing up in iTunes next to songs that were added to an iPod by Banshee. The user was saying that they would sync their iPod up with Banshee and place Banshee derived songs onto their iPod. From there, they would sync their iPod to iTunes to find that all the songs they added from Banshee had this explicit red tag showing up. The user also stated that this problem does not occur when using the libgpod svn trunk r1733.
I have a couple of theories as to why this bug is still open on Banshee's Bugzilla list. My first theory is that since r1733 of the libgpod library does not experience this problem, then there was no need to fix something that has already been fixed by a library revision. Of course, the libgpod r1733 could be an older revision and the user could be complaining about a the newest libgpod revision, but the bug report is not specific about which revision is experiencing the problem.
My second theory is that since this red tag is being experienced in an piece of Apple software, the developers did not see the bug as something major and just let it be.
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