hi, You actions are understandable but i warn to be careful. I did a quick look some time ago and found some bugs that where still open and valid and even contained patches but where is the wrong section so no one found them.
Is it an option to have a open bugs marked as "OLD BUG" when age > 2 ? re, wh Am 19.09.2011 09:17, schrieb Jeremy Huddleston: > So, one of the things talked about at XDC was just how icky bugzilla has > become. There are a ton of open bugs which haven't been touched in ages and > either don't apply any more or don't have sufficient information to act upon. > I would like to spend some effort cleaning these up, but before I go and > make thousands of changes, I wanted to discuss my plans in case anyone has > objections, suggestions, and critiques. > > My thoughts: > > 1) Close all NEEDINFO and notourbug bugs which haven't been touched in over a > year. > > 2) Clean up keywords (how do I do this?) > 2a) Remove "cleanup0407" > 2b) Remove movetoxkc (and move those bugs to xkeyboard-config if > applicable) > 2c) Add "HITLIST" for top issues that we should focus on addressing soon > (ie: this will be a nag list). Is there a way to restrict who can add > certain keywords? > 2d) Add "NOMINATE" to allow reporters to nominate the issue as a hitlist > bug. Maintainers can go through and review nominated bugs to see if they > want to HITLIST them or not. > 2e) Add "STALE" keyword which will be used to automatically close old, > stale bugs (below) > > 3) Add the STALE keyword to all bugs with a note that they will be closed if > nobody comments in the bug within 2 weeks if they satisfy each of the > following: > 3a) haven't been touched in >= 2 years > 3b) Have no other keywords > > 4) 2 weeks later, I will act on #3 and close all bugs which received no > comments. Those which did have a comment will be reviewed and screened > appropriately. > > > 2d and 2e will allow us to keep track of top issues without using the > tracker-* metabug. If preferred, we can still keep the tracker-* metabugs > and just add a "NOMINATE" keyword to nominate a bug for the tracker. > > It's unfortunate that the keywords list includes a column for the total > number of bugs with such a keyword rather than the total number of *OPEN* > bugs with that keyword. Is this configurable somewhere (other than hacking > the bugzilla source)? > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
