From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Py366-0001ha-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:13:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C603D1C01C; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161BAE072B for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (p4FF9B0EF.dip.t-dialin.net [79.249.176.239]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tomka) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B06B01B40FB for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:13:38 +0100 From: Thomas Kahle To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs Message-ID: <20110311141338.GW3732@denkmatte.Speedport_W_502V_Typ_A> References: <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org> <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7Us/CiahOveQMyD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 47b588ca87f8b7c98c3efb3e287f3da8 --C7Us/CiahOveQMyD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20:25 Thu 10 Mar , Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed: >=20 > * 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 >=20 > The winner is bug #78406, which hasn't been touched for over 2240 days > - over 6 years - at the time of writing. >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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.=20 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,=20 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Just a thought from an old ex-dev... >=20 > Kev. >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ --C7Us/CiahOveQMyD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk16LhIACgkQQYXt1pFHaaEGLgP+JIXaij1/F9K7fi0UVx3TZ9ib 5GOiVSO98QaPnMmswHU6BCXch74AFS8YUXYb+rg1Q3QWcm/+rZjY2B4QBv14nI6a 3Thy5ViAIe0l0jOhnqbx9bBr3ZO+fVbhb+IuGUV/M6qZ2eyTMV+1PJ5CwRz4CtmX P59H46ecY6Gcokgla8I= =j0D/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7Us/CiahOveQMyD--