I think 20 a day is probably sane... Prod Dave McMurtrie at CMU if you need bugzilla permissions. I'm sure we're happy to have anyone squishing bugs!
"Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <[email protected]> wrote: >Bron Gondwana wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) >wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > would it be acceptable if old, idle bugs in bugzilla were closed after due >> > consideration? >> >> That would be a great idea! >> > >;-) > >> > For example, I encounter bug #2590[1] with status NEW; I would like to >close >> > it to clean up the bug database, possibly only after requesting some >feedback >> > (like I did with this one). >> > >> > [1] https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2590 >> >> Maybe we should do a bug cleaning week? I'm on leave at the moment. I >think >> we should probably go through all the bugs as a group and decide on their >> status and applicability. I suspect quite a few of them are no longer valid >> or already solved - just not updated. >> > >It seems that I do not have any permissions to change a bug's status; I have a >new account. > >> Perhaps if we posted one email per bug to the mailing list and asked for a >> discussion on its merits. Maybe not all at once so they don't get lost in >the >> haze, but we could group them up. >> > >One bug a day through the list would be very inefficient, and I'm sure there's >bugs that actually do deserve love & attention. There's a number of bugs that >have been resolved already, just haven't been closed. Let's remember that if a >bug is closed while not satisfactory to the reporter, the bugs can simply be >reopened. > >Most of them look like they just need some follow-up and can be closed in >2/4/6 weeks if no response has been given to any inquiries for more >information (like #2590, the time window is a project choice of course). > >-- >Jeroen van Meeuwen >Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG > >e: [email protected] >t: +316 42 801 403 >w: http://www.kolabsys.com > >pgp: 9342 BF08 -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
