Auto-expiring bugs are getting absurd

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:55:36 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 08:48 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 23:54 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 13:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > > Where is the human to notice "comments after EOL" and act
> > > > accordingly?
> > 
> > In practice, GNOME maintainers have hundreds of bugs apiece and so
> > rarely respond to individual bug reports, even simple requests to
> > close or reopen a bug.
> > 
> > Also many GNOME bugs are assigned to the Red Hat email address of
> > somebody who I believe no longer works at Red Hat
> 
> There's supposed to be a process for this, I've seen it happen
> multiple times when someone leaves. Their manager is expected to have
> their BZ account closed and the bugs re-assigned, I believe. So: if
> you know who that person's manager was...

Well, this was all sort of vuage in the past, but recently we (fedora)
have been getting notices of people's roles changing so they no longer
will be maintaining their fedora packages. 

Perhaps we could extend this info to gnome bugzilla folks somehow and
get those bugs reassigned as well. 

kevin
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