Hi, After the recent discussion on debian-devel about BTS cleaning and so, I thought it might be a good time to report the status of my XSF BTS cleaning (maybe somebody wants to jump in and synchronize with me...).
1) old packages The original plan was to look at very old bugs. So I started with xserver-xfree86. I don't have exact numbers, but about 320 bugs got closed. I would say 60% because of ping timeout (about 4 weeks) or invalid address, 15% because the submitter didn't have the hardware anymore, and 25% because the problem was actually gone. While waiting for the submitters to reply to my pings, I started pinging other packages, from the old ones to the newers. Apart from a couple pings that are still pending, the following old xfree86 related packages are now bug-free: xfree86, xfree86-common, xserver-common, xlibmesa-dri, xlibmesa-gl, xlibmesa-glu, x-window-system, x-window-system-core. Once I will have reassigned most of the remaining xserver-xfree86 bugs (about 30) to xorg packages, we should be pretty close to have nothing "<=sarge"-specific anymore. 2) wishlists There are still a lot of wishlists, especially against xserver-xfree86. Several are related to debconf, which is supposed to go away after Etch. I would be great if people with more knowledge than me could give a quick look at the others and tag some as wontfix. For most of these old wishlists, I miss some background to decide between wontfix or reassign to xorg :( 3) packages' status The following packages have been pingued and are waiting for the timeout to arrive: xserver-xfree86 xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibs xutils mesa-utils mesa libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libosmesa4 libx11 libx11-6 libx11-data libx11-dev libxaw7 libxft2 xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xfs xnest xutils-dev xvfb xdm The following (non-exhaustive list) packages are clean (I mean, no more obsolete or irrelevant bug, but possibly still some valid bugs): Most libs The mesa packages that are not listed above The following ones are almost clean, except some very simple bugs that are easy to fix (see below): twm libxft-dev xresprobe xcursor-themes xfonts-100dpi The following packages are still to do, I will start pinging them next week, doing the non-Xorg-related packages first: xkb-data xfonts-utils xbase-clients x11-common libdrm* libxvmc* xkeyboard-config xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-* xserver-xorg-video-* x11-proto* xorg-docs compiz* (I hope I didn't miss anything) Looking at the BTS of a package and searching for "Done: Brice Goglin" is usually a good way to know whether I worked on a package or not... 4) summary To summarize, within the last 2 months, I think about 500 bugs got closed. I expect to close more than 100 with the current pending pings. And hopefully 300 more with the packages that are still to-do. So we should be able to go under 1000 outstanding bugs then... About 20 bugs have been forwarded upstream. I could probably forward much more bugs, but I don't want upstream to hate me :) About 20 bugs are in my bookmarks, marked as "trivial stuff to commit in git". I know how to commit simple stuff in git. But, I am still pretty afraid of creating an experimental branch or updating it with a new upstream release. So basically, I am waiting a little bit in case somebody does the branch update for me :) If there's something I should change in the way I am doing all this, please let me know. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
