On Friday, October 15, 2010 09:31:38 am Deryck Hodge wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm sure many of you may have heard by now, but we're getting close to > re-enabling automatic bug expiry on Launchpad. There's a post about > this on the Launchpad blog: > > http://blog.launchpad.net/general/enabling-automatic-bug-expiry > > > What do you mean "re-enabling"? > ------------------------------- > > Launchpad has always advertised that we auto-expire inactive > incomplete bugs, but we haven’t done this for awhile now. Some > developers are using their own launchpadlib scripts which set bug > tasks to the EXPIRED status based on the same criteria that Launchpad > will use. > > These individual scripts will no longer be needed once we re-enable > auto expiry on Launchpad itself. > > > What does this means for Ubuntu? > -------------------------------- > > Ubuntu is already configured to take advantage of automatic expiry. > Next week, we will do a few test runs of the script that expires bugs. > We will start with a full run on our staging server, which will not > affect the main Launchpad site but will give us an idea if we're doing > the right thing with expiry. We will then begin batched runs against > launchpad.net, doing runs of 100 or 200 bugs at a time. Again, this > is to make sure we're not expiring bugs we shouldn't and to make it > easier to recover from mistakes. > > Once we get through a few batched runs on launchpad.net and we're > confident we're expiring the correct bugs and everything is working > smoothly with this feature, we will set the bug expiry script to do > regular runs, expiring all eligible bug tasks with each run.
Why are we convinced throwing away bugs is a good idea? Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
