Fedora 16 EOL Bugzilla Closure - strange behavior?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

Exactly. The script uses CSV generated from Bugzilla in one time but
as the script runs nearly for a day, conflicts can happen...

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

I got it from Spot, but yeah - it needs a new home. I'll take a look
what can I do (passwords and git does not work very well together ;-)
and where to put it.

Jaroslav  

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