Mass closing EOL bugs should not close bugs with pending updates

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Sun Feb 17 21:05:52 UTC 2013


On 02/17/2013 03:26 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2013, 14:46 +0100 schrieb Tadej Janež:
>> On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 12:02 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: 
>>> I found that a couple of F16 bugs were closed by endoflife at fp.o even
>>> though there were pending updates for F17 and F18 to fix them. As a
>>> result, the bugs are now closed WONTFIX even they were or are going to
>>> be fixed.
>> What you describe is another example of strange behavior of the Fedora
>> EOL Closure script.
>> I discovered two related problems that I described three days ago:
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/178649.html
>>
>> Since then I found a page that describes the Fedora 16 EOL Closure
>> procedure:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora18#Fedora_16_EOL_Closure
>>
>> It says that the bugs with "version == Fedora 16" and "status != CLOSED"
>> are subject to automatic closure. Could you give an example of a bug
>> that you described?
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-2359/lxpanel-0.5.12-1.fc18
> and 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-2359/lxpanel-0.5.12-1.fc17
> fix several bugs, among them two very old and annoying ones:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782431 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785906
>
> As you can see the bugs were already ON_QA before they were closed
> WONTFIX.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
>

I agree here.   A number of my bugs just got closed and they are still valid and should have been moved to next version
by someone who had authority to do it.

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