On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:05 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:07:52PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Provoking question: > > > > > > Am I the only person in Fedora who considers this bug triaging (esp. > > > today's) to be producing more noise and spam than useful results? > > > > > > Having had to personally deal with tens of thousands of bugs / bug > > reports / issues / resolutions in the 9+ years I've been actively > > developing Linux, I'm glad for _anyone_ who steps up and tries to > > actively manage this list. Issues get resolved but not closed. > > Issues get reported but lack follow-up (either developer or reporter) > > on occasion. Eventually these need to get pruned, like any good > > garden, leaving only the actual problems which need focus. The Triage > > effort is designed to do exactly this. I am not denying this kind of job needs to be done, nor I am I denying this to be an unthankful job, but ... I am questioning their approach. > > Does it generate some additional mail? Yes. Are they taking steps to > > minimize the extra mail? Yes. But does that mail generation negate > > the good they're accomplishing? IMHO, No. IMO, it "negates the good". They mail-bomb reporters, they mail-bomb maintainers, they flood mailing-lists, they render bugzilla entries unreadable, they produce plenty of superfluous/bogus reports ... All in all, I find the collateral damage to be too high, because they do not fix the causes for PRs to pile up but are "playing with symptoms". > Agreed, its a completely thankless job and an easy target but after these > begining steps are over and the team is into a cycle I think it will do a > great deal of good. Well, I do not agree. As far as I am concerned as reporter and maintainer, all they have done is to close a hardly measurable number of PRs which had really become outdated because the "package maintainer had ignored it" and caused nothing but spam on the overwhelming majority of open PRs. Ralf _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
