On Dec 31, 2007 5:19 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
I've been doing this a little bit at a time for a while. I just wanted to check base and make sure all on the same page. For starters, here's a search of all bugs not touched in 6 months: http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type...
Cool, I generally do it manually by checking every old bug <8000
Which is the main list I work from for triaging old bugs. Here's another link with bugs that have a download available: http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type...
Furthermore, what criteria are we using for considering a bug abandoned? I've been closing bugs that have had a lingering question/request (e.g., requested a log/test) but received no reply in 6 months.
Generally we consider the bug as abandoned if the submitter does not respond for more than 1yr(at least 6months). Generally we consider the time factor if we could not get the application name. or if the submitter does not clearly explain the problem. (with to implementation of features or specialized test cases) And we check whether it belongs to any of the metabugs already present. Mostly for the older apps we would like to manually test ourselves with the links provided. As for the old bugs submitters might have forgotten about them. So we need to test it ourselves and put the logs or somethiing like still present in latest git.
Lastly, how long are we trying to do this over? I try to limit my testing/requests so as to not spam everyone too much, but if we go through and verify all these old bugs, it's going to be _a lot_ of bugzilla activity. Is everyone prepared for/okay with that?
We would be doing this for 1-2 months as the Wine 1.0 release might happen in may be next 6-7 months time. We might expect lotta bugzilla activity as wine goes out of beta. and all the old bugs will be ignored and bugs grow exponentially. There will be lotta bugzilla spam, we cant avoid it ;) Last time it was mostly done by Jonathan Ernst and others, also by me
-- VJ
-Austin
On Dec 31, 2007 5:05 PM, Vijay Kiran Kamuju infyquest@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
just like last year we did an audit of all the bugs in bugzilla. I think this year also we should do the same, the bugs are growing large and older bugs are being neglected. just wanted to say that we need to check all the old open bugs, and test them/ask the user for status. Close the bug as Abandoned if there is no response. also test the application yourself on latest git. this is the work to be done. and we need volunteers for this work.
need volunteers to clear up the mess(old abandoned bugs) in bugzilla
Thanks, vj