Mass closing EOL bugs should not close bugs with pending updates

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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

But for F16 - it's true - the fix is not going to be available in F16,
thus WONTFIX. Correct resolution is to bump version to F17/F18 or clone bugs.

I removed the "clone" part as most people were screaming [1] - but for this
case it's probably the best resolution - close F16 as WONTFIX, and properly
close F17 and F18 bugs (just the overhead...).

And as Kevin pointed out - you can still fix it - with proper version used.

Btw. I'm not saying I'm not open to make the process better, I'm aware of
the conflicts that could happen due to how bugs are closed - the CSV from
BZ is generated first, then it runs for nearly a day. There could be bugs
that do not receive EOL notification as these are filled after the EOL
notification run. But with the ratio of faults and numbers of bugs closed...

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora18#Fedora_16_EOL_Closure

Jaroslav

> 
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
> 
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