proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 6 21:04:38 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:49:26AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Your whole proposal more or less *is* the heuristic 'don't autoclose
> bugs with comments', because of how needinfo works in RH bugzilla. It's
> not a status (as you imply by writing NEEDINFO) but a flag. If you set
> the needinfo flag not against a specific person but against 'anyone',
> then by default, the next person who posts a comment of any kind will
> clear the flag - they have to uncheck a little box if they want to *not*
> clear the flag.

Thanks, yes. Once upon a time in the decent past (like, embarrassingly long
ago) it *was* a status, and apparently way too much of that is still in my
brain. I went back and reread what I wrote, and I think it still makes sense
with your clarification. The above was certainly exactly why I propose this
-- it's not just moving around what we happen to call things, but has an
actual positive change to the user experience.

It is the case that it being a flag rather than a status makes it a bit
more complicated to set up searches for bugs which are open but don't have
the flag set. But it's still doable, so I hope that doesn't undermine it too
much.



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