old release bugs handling

[Patrice Dumas]

Nobody interested?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When looking at the infra after eol issue, Toshio made me aware that 
> nothing special is done for bugzilla in eol branches. Maybe it would 
> be nice to have bugs filled against old branches associated with 
> another product, such that they are easier to triage, and owner 
> doesn't get those bugs automatically? As a disclaimer I know nothing 
> about both the technical issues and the organizational issues involved
> by that proposal. The idea could be along (provided it is technically 
> feasible):
> 
> * when a bug is filled against an old release in the current fedora 
>   product, the product is automatically changed to 'fedora EOL' 
>   (or 'fedora Legacy' if that product is to be reused), which means 
>   that they don't necessarily go to the same mail adress than current
>   releases. Also there is an automatic answer for those bugs, along:
> 
> 'You are reporting a bug against an unsupported fedora release, you 
> are urged to upgrade, and retry with the new release'.
> 
> * the owner of this product is the owner of one of the old releases,
>   for example could be the owner of F7 currently. That way, if this 
>   release is orphaned by the maintainer, he won't get bug reports 
>   for the old branch anymore. I would even suggest mass orphaning such 
>   that the default is that the maintainer doesn't get those bugs.
> 
> 
> Then people interested in triaging bugs for old releases could be 
> subscribed to the adress all the product bugs are forwarded to, 
> such that they can triage the bugs.
> 
> 
> Of course this would make more sense in case the infra was left 
> open for old releases, as there would be people specifically interested 
> in triaging those bugs and also interested in becoming maintainers 
> of old branches, but even if the proposal to keep infra open for old
> branches is rejected --- and I am almost sure that it will be 
> rejected --- it could still be something relevant to do.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> PS: tell me if this is better to ask that kind of question on the infra
> list.
> 
> --
> Pat
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