Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs

[George Prowse <george.prowse@gmail.com>]

On 10/03/2011 20:25, 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'm
> 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.
>
Why not give userrel a list of 2000 bugs from 6 years old to 6 months 
old to elcit help from the community?

A dev could look why a user marked it cantfix e.g. "refers to outdated 
version of baselayout" and tick it off the list so it no longer appears.

G