wino@piments.com wrote:
This may help to get some fresh input on old bugs and for that it may be of value but I think the basic attitude here is wrong.
The goal of autoresolving is to automate exactly what QA volunteers currently do manually. If you don't like how the QA volunteers are dealing with stale bug reports, feel free to jump in and deal with them differently. Or if you feel the autoresolve proposal doesn't match what the volunteers are doing, please say so.
The autoresolve proposal currently gets two things wrong, I think:
1) it only sends email to the original submitter. It should cc all the people who have asked to be cc'd on the bug, of course.
2) it won't handle any bugs which are stale but which a QA volunteer inquired about recently.
Both of those are probably fairly easy to solve.
But I'm not planning on actually doing an autoresolve run any time soon, since the volunteers seem to be making good headway manually. - Dan
p.s. I do believe I'm getting too cranky to actually interact with other people on this list. Perhaps I should go away until, say, my two-year-old son has learned to sleep through the night! That'll teach me to wait until I'm old and feeble before having my first kid next time :-)