Fedora 16 EOL Bugzilla Closure - strange behavior?

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/15/2013 05:41 AM, Tadej Janež wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Here is an example:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736498
> I filled this bug during the F-16 Graphics test week.
> After the Fedora EOL reminder and before the bug was closed, I tried to
> reproduce it on F-17 and I couldn't. Thus I marked the bug as CLOSED
> CURRENTRELEASE.
> After a couple of hours the Fedora EOL script changed the Resolution to
> WONTFIX:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_activity.cgi?id=736498
> 
> Another example:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739315
> This is an ABRT bug report that was originally reported against
> gnome-shell on F-16. I encountered it with gnome-shell on F-17
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739315#c72) and some people
> encountered it on F-18. I bumped the version to 18, however, after a
> couple of hours the Fedora EOL script closed it as WONTFIX.
> 
> Could someone explain this behavior?

I wouldn't be surprised if whatever script is used to do the mass closings
does a first pass generating the list of bugs that need closing, and then does
a second pass closing them unconditionally. If someone changes the bug info
between those two passes the script wouldn't notice. And figuring that there
were probably thousand of bugs closed, it could very well take the script
hours to run.

This is all conjecture though, since I couldn't find any script in qa, releng,
or infrastructure git repos.

- Cole