Re: bugzilla mass mods

[Jonathan Ernst]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your inquiry.

Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 17:21 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
> Jonathan,
> maybe what you did is good, but I
> thought one had to actually verify
> a bug as fixed before one could mark it
> as verified.  You seem to have subverted the

VERIFIED
        QA has looked at the bug and the resolution and agrees that the
        appropriate resolution has been taken. Bugs remain in this state
        until the product they were reported against actually ships, at
        which point they become CLOSED.

Yes that's true, but in Wine the QA is mostly us and the people who
report the bugs to be fixed. In Wine usually when a bug is marked as
fixed and not reopened shortly after, it really means that it's fixed
and thus verified. What I feel is that people reporting bugs, you and me
and others actually ARE Wine's QA.

I don't think that having ~800 bugs marked as fixed since years was
useful. Maybe now that they are closed, the new fixed bugs can actually
be verified by some of the active QA people in Wine. There have been
more activity lately in bugzilla and keeping all these old bugs fixed
and not closed was not doing any good imho. Having about 10/15 bugs to
verify between each snapshot is much more maintainable and can hopefully
be done.
> process.  Did you get consensus before starting
> these mods?

This was discussed on IRC when quite a lot of people where online (see
my message to wine-devel).

Bye,

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[Dan Kegel]

Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> > Did you get consensus before starting these mods?
>
> This was discussed on IRC when quite a lot of people where online (see
> my message to wine-devel).

I missed your message to wine-devel... oh.  You sent it
*after* the fact.  Big mistake!  If you want to
do a mass mod to bugzilla, it's a good idea to
discuss it ahead of time on wine-devel, like I did here:
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-October/040504.html
and let consensus form.  IRC is not an appropriate place
to form a consensus about sweeping changes
(though it may be a great place to discuss them).
- Dan

bugzilla mass mods

[Detlef Riekenberg]

Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2005, 11:23 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Ernst:
> I don't think that having ~800 bugs marked as fixed since years was
> useful.

Just for your Info:
My account was flooded, because my free Mail-Account has a Limit for the
number of Mail's and the total Size.
Not very nice.

For such a high Number of Mails, it should stretched to a minimum of 4-5
weeks with some Informations before the start.