On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM Lumír Balhar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I recently discovered that we currently have 418 open Bugzillas created by > Upstream Release Monitoring, all assigned to Orphan Owner. These bugs don’t > seem useful to keep around, especially considering that one of the core > checks during new package reviews is verifying that the latest upstream > version is packaged—so these “update is available” bugs for orphaned packages > serve no practical purpose. > > I believe we can define additional search queries that would identify other > categories of similarly obsolete or low-value bugs. > > With that in mind, I’d like to ask: Would it make sense to introduce a “stale > bug” policy and run a cronjob or lightweight service that automatically > closes such bugs based on a set of agreed-upon rules? I think this could help > reduce noise in Bugzilla and make the remaining issues more meaningful. >
I think it probably makes sense if they are sent to retired packages, otherwise having them stick around is still useful. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
