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On 10/03/2011 20:25, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed: |
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> * Number of open bugs is greater than 14,000 |
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> * Number of open bugs untouched for more than 2 years - well over 2000. |
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> * Number of open bugs untouched between 1 and 2 years - well over 2000. |
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> * Number of open bugs untouched between 6 months and 1 year - well over |
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> 2000. |
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> * Number of open bugs untouched between 3 months and 6 months - over |
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> 2000 |
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> The winner is bug #78406, which hasn't been touched for over 2240 days |
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> - over 6 years - at the time of writing. |
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> I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be |
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> touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason |
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> or another. All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla. |
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> So I'd like to suggest a drastic, perhaps controversial action. Mark |
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> all bugs that haven't been touched for over (say) 3 months as |
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> "Resolved:Wontfix", with a polite comment saying that it is closed due |
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> to lack of resource amongst the volunteer developer community. I'm |
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> sure a suitable bugzilla script wiz could do that relatively |
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> easily. Users who care about such bugs can still comment on them, or |
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> talk directly to the assigned dev to highlight it's still a relevant |
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> issue to them, or even to supply a solution against the current tree. |
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> It could be an ongoing policy, in which case, users who care about |
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> them can keep bugs alive simply by posting useful updates to the bug, |
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> describing how the issue still applies to a new revision for example. |
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> Just a thought from an old ex-dev... |
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> Kev. |
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Why not give userrel a list of 2000 bugs from 6 years old to 6 months |
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old to elcit help from the community? |
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A dev could look why a user marked it cantfix e.g. "refers to outdated |
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version of baselayout" and tick it off the list so it no longer appears. |
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G |