Re: Pruning the bugtracker

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 09:35 PM, JM wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis<grbzks@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> JM<fijam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have browsed through all High and Medium severity bugreports and
>>>> categorized some of them here:
>>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Fijam .
>>>>
>>>> 'Candidates for closing' are divided into two categories: strong and
>>>> weak. Strong candidates have not been replied to in over 4 months
>>>> (with some bugs seeing no activity for over a year) with the last
>>>> comment asking for more information or confirmation whether the bug
>>>> still persists. I have not yet started issuing closure requests but
>>>> will do so in two weeks if noone replies to those reports. Weak
>>>> candidates have not been replied to in less than four months, the
>>>> resolution of the bug was unclear or the original submitter found
>>>> another solution and failed to provide any more information. I will
>>>> wait for another month before issuing closure requests. Note: jelle
>>>> van der waa (jelly) asked for confirmation on many of those bugs and
>>>> deserves all the praise.
>>>>
>>>> I have also identified some bugs where more input or a confirmation of
>>>> a fix is needed and asked for it. Will try to do initial triaging on
>>>> those bugs or mark them as candidates for closing if the submitter
>>>> fails to respond.
>>>>
>>>> There was also a couple of bug reports that seemed to be going
>>>> nowhere. There was either a failure in communication, unresolved
>>>> argument, a patch with no feedback from the developers or a request to
>>>> split a bug into two or more specific reports. These should probably
>>>> be reviewed again.
>>>>
>>>> There are still Low and Very Low severity bugs to go through, so
>>>> perhaps some other user wants to pick up where I left :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for doing this. You could have used the already set up
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO page though instead of
>>> your user page.
>>> That might need a bit of cleaning up but if you're willing to transfer
>>> properly the ones on your page there i will help with this if you lack
>>> the time to invest doing the clean up yourself.
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Greg
>>>
>> I have seen this page but it is a bit of a mess. I will clean it up
>> and merge both lists during the weekend, possibly adding a category
>> 'candidates for removal' based on my own criteria if that's OK.
>>
>> JM
>
> I have been trying to get the bugtracker a bit cleaned up, there are a lot
> of kernel related bugs which are reported with a version < 2.6.35.
> Most of these bugs are 'waiting on response' and I'd say they should be
> closed.
>
> --
> Jelle van der Waa
>
>

I have updated the list at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO. It would be great
if someone wanted to browse through Low and Very Low severity bugs in
Arch Linux and Community Packages as I have only browsed through High
and Medium.

Cheers,
JM


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