On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:54:35AM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:17:33AM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > 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. > > > > That looks ok to me too, even if the 2 weeks period looks a bit short > to me, but I understand that you want to move forward. > > I recently looked at the X.Org patchwork > (http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/Xorg/list/). It also > appears to have a lot of stale data. Any plans to clean it up too ?
A while ago there were some plans in Patchwork, to link to a repo and automatically find merged patches (git patch-id, etc), but I don't know if that became reality. -- Cheers, Dirk _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
