On vrijdag 16 november 2018 10:37:08 CET Luigi Toscano wrote: > the (semi)automated process which pings and then closes NEEDINFO bugs was > implemented, but I've noticed another policy which was never discussed (as > far as I know) here: bugs opened for a while > > I disagree with this policy, and I'm not alone (at least another maintainer > asked for his product to be excluded): > - not all projects distinguished between CONFIRMED and UNCONFIRMED (now > REPORTED), so it's possible that a perfectly valid bug or request > (especially requests) seems stale. You may say that it's easy to flip the > status again. I'd say that it's a unneeded step. > - at most the script could add a new comment asking for updates, but not > immediately change the status out of the blue. > - as mentioned, it was not discussed. > > Please disable it for now, or just enable it for projects who explicitly > wants it for now.
I know it's well-meant, and it does help to get old bugs resolved -- but it really should use a script that checks whether the original reporter has added a comment since it was set to needinfo, and in that case just reopen it. I know that the script that was intended to do that didn't work, and I've tried to figure out whether I could fix it, but failed in that. But right now, the closing to WORKSFOME plays havoc with my bugzilla routine -- and worse, it makes me hesitate to put bugs in the NEEDINFO state. -- https://www.krita.org
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