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 1PxxOD-0007Q9-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:08:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 283181C018; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1784E04C2 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3111663wwj.10 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:07:16 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.227.207.85 with SMTP id fx21mr7885449wbb.171.1299830835973; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:07:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.227.137.203 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:07:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> References: <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org> <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:07:15 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bU3U0i8dPqnDp-fREYkUY5ojOOM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: "Kevin F. Quinn" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e8256e913ddea8452ffda6f797f2e58e On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, 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 > =C2=A02000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 3 months and 6 months - over > =C2=A02000 > > 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. =C2=A0All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla. > > > So I'd like to suggest a drastic, perhaps controversial action. =C2=A0Mar= k > 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. =C2=A0I'm > sure a suitable bugzilla script wiz could do that relatively > easily. =C2=A0Users who care about such bugs can still comment on them, o= r > 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. I'm curious what the root problem is. In general I do not believe 'having lots of bugs open' is an actual problem for Gentoo. Is it hard to search for bugs? (new bugzilla search non-withstanding.) Are users upset that their new bug is a dupe of a bug that is already years old? -A > > 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. > > > >