As I'm sure everyone knows -- and all maintainers not involved with Fedora Legacy are probably relieved by -- Fedora Core 2 is now "transferred" to the Fedora Legacy Project. Maybe you've already seen my posts on the fedora-legacy list, or by now, the LWN article about this. Having Fedora Legacy succeed is important to me, and I believe vital to the long-term survival of the Fedora Project and of the Fedora/RHEL ecosystem as a whole [1]. One part of making this transfer credible is dealing with the left-open Fedora Core 2 bugs. If they all remain as-is, the Bugzilla will eventually become a desolate wasteland of abandoned issues and user and developer frustration [2]. I've already examined and transferred all bugs marked with a severity of "security". For the rest, I propose to mark ALL still-open FC2 bugs as "NEEDINFO", with the following message: Fedora Core 2 is now maintained for security updates only by the Fedora Legacy project. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Then, in one month, all FC2 bugs still in the NEEDINFO state would be marked as RESOLVED:WONTFIX, again with a comment similar to the above. There are about 1200 FC2 bugs in open state right now; of those, over a third are assigned to the kernel. Dave Jones has already indicated that he's okay with this basic approach (in fact, if I understand correctly, he'd prefer to jump straight to WONTFIX). While I'm naming names, Bill Nottingham, notes that some developers use bugzilla.redhat.com as the effectively upstream bugzilla for some packages, and that shutting everything down might not be what's wanted. That's why I propose the two-step approach above. Also, I'll put myself on the CC list of every single one of those bugs and deal with any fallout from my actions. Before I actually go ahead and do anything though, I'd appreciate hearing what other people think is the right thing to do in this situation. Thanks! .......................................................................... Footnotes: 1. I have some further thoughts on this that I'm developing as a response to Michael Tiemann's FUDCon1 talk -- more on this later sometime. 2. I know some people feel that it's that way already. Okay then, this is part of an attempt to salvage it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
