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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:13:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110311141338.GW3732@denkmatte.Speedport_W_502V_Typ_A> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com>

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On 20:25 Thu 10 Mar     , Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed:
> 
> * Number of open bugs is greater than 14,000
> * Number of open bugs untouched for more than 2 years - well over 2000.
> * Number of open bugs untouched between 1 and 2 years - well over 2000.
> * Number of open bugs untouched between 6 months and 1 year - well over
>   2000.
> * Number of open bugs untouched between 3 months and 6 months - over
>   2000
> 
> The winner is bug #78406, which hasn't been touched for over 2240 days
> - over 6 years - at the time of writing.
> 
> I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be
> touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason
> or another.  All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla.
> 
> 
> So I'd like to suggest a drastic, perhaps controversial action.  Mark
> all bugs that haven't been touched for over (say) 3 months as
> "Resolved:Wontfix", with a polite comment saying that it is closed due
> to lack of resource amongst the volunteer developer community. 

I do come back to bugs after years.  They should not be closed if they
are not fixed.  "WONTFIX" for me means that there was a decision made
that this will not be fixed, but that is not the case.

+1 for the argument that 14000 open bugs is not a problem.  Bugzilla is
not something that needs to be clean and tidy.  Closing them would
generate a lot of work because of false positive while there is zero
benefit.

Cheers, 
Thomas

> sure a suitable bugzilla script wiz could do that relatively easily.
> Users who care about such bugs can still comment on them, or talk
> directly to the assigned dev to highlight it's still a relevant issue
> to them, or even to supply a solution against the current tree.
> 
> It could be an ongoing policy, in which case, users who care about
> them can keep bugs alive simply by posting useful updates to the bug,
> describing how the issue still applies to a new revision for example.
> 
> Just a thought from an old ex-dev...
> 
> Kev.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-03-10 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs Kevin F. Quinn
2011-03-10 21:03   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-03-10 21:33   ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Richards
2011-03-11  4:46   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2011-03-11  8:07   ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2011-03-11  8:25   ` George Prowse
2011-03-11 14:13   ` Thomas Kahle [this message]
2011-03-12 14:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-03-12 17:09     ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-12 17:16       ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-03-16  4:17     ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2011-03-16  9:46   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tomáš Chvátal

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