What to do with old "important" but still open bugs?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 17:41 -0500, Christopher Beland wrote:
> Taking a look at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/duplicates.cgi?sortby=count&reverse=1&product=Fedora&maxrows=100&changedsince=7
> 
> there are two crashers in F12 which have over a hundred duplicates,
> substantially more than the next runners up:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543165
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538207
> 
> I was trying to decide how to mark these as high priority.  Normally I
> would have marked them F12Target, but these bugs are in the final
> release.  I was pondering F13Target, but it's unclear people are
> experiencing them there.  Anyone have any advice?

FWIW, basically no-one takes any notice of the Target trackers,
practically speaking. I've given up using 'em. So it's no *worse*, in
this case. :) I'd say just set them to 'high' priority. You can also
drop an email to the maintainers to point up the issues, in case they're
not aware.

> I also noticed that there are still open bugs blocking FC5Target
> through F12Target.  Bug 136143, which is the only thing blocking
> FC3Target and FC4Target that still isn't fixed.  Apparently it's a
> security bug, since I'm not allowed to access it.
> 
> I thought that if these bugs were important enough to nominate for
> those old releases, they are probably important enough to nominate for
> this release, but some of them just seem to be EasyFix, low severity,
> no one seems to care much about them.  Some of them seem to be fixed,
> too, so I did a bit of testing today.  But I'm unsure if I should
> de-nominate them if they don't seem important, or blanket nominate
> them to F13Target, or just leave them feeling sad because they were
> not fixed on target.  I'm not sure there's much value in having the
> Target list if it doesn't actually motivate developers to take care of
> the bugs listed there ASAP.  To retain the status of this designation as
> "of significant importance to the quality of the release", perhaps these
> bugs should be reviewed by some group periodically, and de-nominated if
> they aren't all that important?  That might also provide a forum to
> engage developers.

yeah, we probably need to do something to make Target useful, or just
drop it. At present I'm not aware of it being much use to anyone.
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