Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-20 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
* Maarten Bezemer, maarten.beze...@gmail.com [19/07/14 18:55]: On Saturday 19 July 2014 18:17:58 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: What do you think? EOL bugs can still be present in active releases... So just closing these bugs without checking if it is still present, is wasting the efforts

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-20 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Daniel Letzeisen: Yes, they can still be present, but unless the reporter confirms that it is still present in a supported release, the bug should automatically go to Incomplete if it is tagged with EOL release(s). This is exactly what a human will do, and there will be no difference if it is

We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Looking at the list of confirmed bugs affecting Ubuntu and the same list tagged with the current supported releases, we can see that around the 70% of bugs in Launchpad are not tagged with those; what suggests that a big amount of bugs are simply End Of Life. I believe we can just jump on

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Actually a good portion of End of Life bugs are typically cleaned up on an automated process, last I checked. I believe there's an automatic script that runs for some of the packages by people on the Security team and other teams, but I do not know the extent of those that get covered. From

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto Salvia Novella: 2. Print the following message: If you are still experiencing this issue in any currently supported release (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases), please set the status back to its previous setting. Sorry, and ask for proper tagging too: If you are still experiencing this

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Brian Murray
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: Actually a good portion of End of Life bugs are typically cleaned up on an automated process, last I checked. I believe there's an automatic script that runs for some of the packages by people on the Security team and other teams,

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Brian Murray
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 06:54:48PM +0200, Maarten Bezemer wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2014 18:17:58 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: What do you think? EOL bugs can still be present in active releases... So just closing these bugs without checking if it is still present, is wasting the

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Ahh, yeah, you're right. I tend to make it a habit of adding the task for that release and marking the bug otherwise for the latest release and leave the task for monitoring it for the affected release, which is why I observe things as such. Otherwise, bugs don't get touched if they don't

Re: We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

2014-07-19 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Saturday 19 July 2014 18:17:58 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: What do you think? EOL bugs can still be present in active releases... So just closing these bugs without checking if it is still present, is wasting the efforts of the reporters (just to have a low open bug count.) and does not