On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 22:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> What's needed to be sure the bug doesn't get closed is
for the Version
> field to be bumped to a release that's not going EOL. A comment may do
> the job, but there's usually hundreds of bugs in the list to be EOLed
> and it's usually a single person compiling the EOL list; they don't have
> time to inspect _every_ ticket manually (the weeding is more along the
> lines of 'look through the summary list for bugs that look like they may
> be special cases').
qed ;-)
What was demonstrandumed exactly? You say "The process is flawed,
however, if tickets that get updated appropriately, don't result in a
higher priority or are not taken off the bug zapper list"; the question
is what constitutes 'appropriately'. It's very difficult to construct a
search such that a *comment* that a bug is still valid is considered to
render it un-EOL-able, while not causing a bunch of false positives.
Would a special tag in the bug summary be helpful?
Or a keyword that would exclude the ticket from the compiled list
automatically? If a second search on all tickets with that keyword
results in hundreds or thousands of ticket numbers, that should raise
an alarm-bell.
We do use this kind of system for the Rawhide rebase - bugs with the
FutureFeature keyword (or RFE in the summary) are excluded. I'm not
actually sure if there's a similar keyword for the EOL search, because
the actual EOL search doesn't appear to be documented anywhere,
unfortunately - there's no SOP for it and it's not in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches that I can
see. Note that it's the program manager who's actually in charge of
doing the EOL stuff - so it was poelcat for a long time, and now it's
The Berge. Robyn, maybe we could improve this? We did have a thread a
while back about improving documentation of the housekeeping tasks, but
never got around to it.
It's sad to talk to Fedora users (and ex-Fedora users), who have
made
bad experience in bugzilla related to this.
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