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 1PxxfC-0000bc-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:25:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D43E31C041; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5CDE057F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so2338552wwi.4 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:25:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wpDskEODe6FIuUaZuBDTIIXeUvic4+DhiyarMOnCSqE=; b=Md8nHGA07pKmU7SIZOY0e7BS/XvhbptsagO4kjc31yI22kLdu+LoSLPL4JtCZ4mtVO c6RkxjSvOoe8n2hQi/LSi++ubYqTakTTZ+4x0wHuj8WWs07RyvEpJXB+eFgooGEczjAk d4rVlp4pXbLv5FRI4nFTms3eeJzFGK5Fi8mp8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Mh1pO5/rDhrURB5by3OGNCnSeNN4oOEMfpX7IZP7aeAhhUmNd+uEDpx9ZdjcS+mjJK hs0vOffAth6dKvLYyY5WuXEmFz9KiOmOk/qadGv5gp+HfBXyVR6pPN36ugitz1LiJo3s 4IIk85AIr2UPCkJpvN0lcT0Xe+Fm/UHFwXHS0= Received: by 10.227.179.138 with SMTP id bq10mr657634wbb.12.1299831900617; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:25:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.247] ([95.147.54.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w25sm3178906wbd.17.2011.03.11.00.24.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:24:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D79DC62.3030805@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:25:06 +0000 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs References: <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org> <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 10faa1997a189f66b97aed691438446a 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