Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> Le 10 oct. 05, à 16:07, hepabolu a écrit :
>
>> ...while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far
>> back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it?
>> It's not a good sign that bugs are open thatlong...
>
>
> I don't think we'll ever get there, my last count says we have 303
> open bugzilla issues, and my perception is that we have little
> collective energy to analyze and prioritize them, we've been chasing
> this for months now without significant results.
>
> How about doing a "bug amnesty" as follows?
>
> 1) Set ALL Cocoon2 open issues to WONTFIX state, with a comment like
> BUG_AMNESTY_2005_10 and a link to a wiki page explaning what's happening.
>
> This will send a mail to bug reporters, people in CC etc. to give them
> a chance to react.
>
> 2) In the explanation, ask people who receive these mails to reopen
> the issue if they think it is still current, if their patch still does
> make sense, etc.
> Explain that the goal is to have an up-to-date list of relevant issues.
>
> This would allow collaborative cleanup of the list of issues by the
> people who are interested in them. We might miss a few issues if
> people don't reply, but they'd be marked with BUG_AMNESTY_2005_10 in
> the comments if we need them back, so easy to find.
>
> Without such a scheme, I'm afraid we'll drag this list forever without
> being able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
>
> WDYT?
>
> -Bertrand
I wouldn't do this with all bugs, but if a bug has been opened for 6
months or perhaps a year or more and has had no activity then I think
changing its status to EXPIRED would be appropriate. It can always be
reopened and fixed.
Ralph
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