On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kevin F. Quinn <m...@kevquinn.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed: > > * Number of open bugs is greater than 14,000 > * Number of open bugs untouched for more than 2 years - well over 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 1 and 2 years - well over 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 6 months and 1 year - well over > 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 3 months and 6 months - over > 2000 > > The winner is bug #78406, which hasn't been touched for over 2240 days > - over 6 years - at the time of writing. > > I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be > touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason > or another. All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla. > > > So I'd like to suggest a drastic, perhaps controversial action. Mark > all bugs that haven't been touched for over (say) 3 months as > "Resolved:Wontfix", with a polite comment saying that it is closed due > to lack of resource amongst the volunteer developer community. I'm > sure a suitable bugzilla script wiz could do that relatively > easily. Users who care about such bugs can still comment on them, or > talk directly to the assigned dev to highlight it's still a relevant > issue to them, or even to supply a solution against the current tree.
I'm curious what the root problem is. In general I do not believe 'having lots of bugs open' is an actual problem for Gentoo. Is it hard to search for bugs? (new bugzilla search non-withstanding.) Are users upset that their new bug is a dupe of a bug that is already years old? -A > > It could be an ongoing policy, in which case, users who care about > them can keep bugs alive simply by posting useful updates to the bug, > describing how the issue still applies to a new revision for example. > > Just a thought from an old ex-dev... > > Kev. > > > >
