Fedora 16 EOL Bugzilla Closure - strange behavior?

[Björn Persson]

Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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...

I seem to recall that I've seen Bugzilla detect and warn about
conflicting concurrent changes. It would seem like a good idea to have
the script use that mechanism.

Björn Persson
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