On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:24 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Well, I haven't seen a single useful posting from them today, just bogus > > reports. > > Fedora 7 is going EOL in 30 days. This isn't bogus, it's a fact. In bugzilla, most reporters use the "version" in the sense of "first version of Fedora" having been affected by a bug. Now, you are spamming them the reporters with mails, effectively pushing them around demanding action on something they are not responsible for. => you are driving away reporters. At the same time, you are forcing maintainers to waste time on actions on something they likely are aware about. At least to me, as a maintainer, the effect most of the triage mails I received in recent days had, was me to reopen/change the version tags in PRs they complained about and to extend my MUA's /dev/null-filter. > Moreover, the process that we're following had been submitted for > review, comment, and approval within the community for quite some time > prior to it's execution. In fact, at one point I was BEGGING for > feedback on it [1]. I have always been opposed to this kind of triage ... IIRC, I had spoken up, then, but I am not sufficiently interested in this kind of job and am too busy with other tasks, to be wanting to get further involved into it. - Now, I am only complaining, because your deeds are showing to have too much of an impact on me. > If you can suggest something better for Fedora > 10, some concrete area in which we did the wrong thing (preferably > along with suggestions of what the right thing would have been), I'm > all ears. > > [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg01199.html > IMHO, the essential effect your triage-robot has, is cosmetics to the bug number statistics, without actually fixing much. I feel, a human (or a team), "systematically and *sustainably* inspecting old bugs" and - more important - taking _immediate_ action on new reports, would be a better approach. It would help getting bugs fixed, instead of seeing them "closed" after they had been lingering around much too long. That said, IMHO, the essential effect your triage-robot has, is cosmetics to the bug number statistics, without actually fixing much. Ralf _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
