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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 08, Jaka Kranjc [lynx AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> On Thursday 08 of March 2007 12:50:25 George Sherwood wrote:
> > I believe that our bugzilla at this time has become nearly unusable.
> > It is my opinion that all the bugs need to be scrubbed and closed
> > ruthlessly due to their age and in ability to be reproduced.  I don't
> > feel that bugzilla in its current state is useful to any one, be it a
> > developer or user.  Currently there are very few active section
> > maintainers.  For the most part it is not useful to have bugs assigned
> > to any one or any section.  I think all bugs should be sent to the
> > mailing list and let people fix the ones from the list that they fell
> > then can.  But most importantly the number of bugs needs to be reduced
> > to some level that is workable and this is going mostly likely include
> > closing old bugs in large numbers.
> Cheer up, the situation is a lot better. With the new stable realease, 
> focus 
> and shorter cycle, there are almost no more problems with bugzilla flags. 
> At the worst point in time (not too long ago), our open bug count almost 
> went 
> over 1900, but now it is under 1300 and slowly dropping (grimoire related 
> is 
> about 1000)! I also have ~100 old bugs still to triage, so expect the count 
> to drop slightly even more and the quickfix list to grow (currently at 90). 
> 
> I doubt there is much we could mass close. Sure, if you can't reproduce it, 
> close it as worksforme, but a lot of the bugs found are still valid. Some 
> things just don't get touched in years.

I was hoping Jaka would chip in here since I know he's been doing a ton of
work in bugzilla and knows the situation better than anyone.

I definitely think we need to improve the process.  What branch to file
them against, when to use the different resolve states, flags, policy for
integration, use of per-section assignments vs. ML, etc.  We currently have
some old policies that don't fit our size or usage, some things that lack
policies, and some things that just have de facto policies that aren't
consistent.  Cleaning this up will help a lot to keep the bug count less
scary-looking, I think.

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