Mass closing EOL bugs should not close bugs with pending updates

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 18.02.2013, 23:34 +0000 schrieb John5342:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Despite of the question whether it's right or wrong it's a manual
> > process and we cannot rely it really happens. On the other hand changing
> > the script to not close any bugs which are ON_QA is easy.
> >
> > So what is so bad about ignoring bugs MODIFIED and/or ON_QA bugs?
> 
> This is a corner case perhaps, but those bugs still need closing at
> some point. If an updates-testing package gets un-pushed or never gets
> sent to stable the bug will never be closed.

Maybe it is a corner case, but what you describe is a corner case of the
corner case. How many updates get actually withdrawn? 1%, 2%, 5%?

> That means that the
> script would need another rule that it _also_ closes bugs for the
> release before regardless of MODIFIED/ON_QA.

That's what it does already, no further rule needed.

Regards,
Christoph