On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 22:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > What's needed to be sure the bug doesn't get closed is for the Version > > field to be bumped to a release that's not going EOL. A comment may do > > the job, but there's usually hundreds of bugs in the list to be EOLed > > and it's usually a single person compiling the EOL list; they don't have > > time to inspect _every_ ticket manually (the weeding is more along the > > lines of 'look through the summary list for bugs that look like they may > > be special cases'). > > qed ;-) What was demonstrandumed exactly? You say "The process is flawed, however, if tickets that get updated appropriately, don't result in a higher priority or are not taken off the bug zapper list"; the question is what constitutes 'appropriately'. It's very difficult to construct a search such that a *comment* that a bug is still valid is considered to render it un-EOL-able, while not causing a bunch of false positives. > Would a special tag in the bug summary be helpful? > Or a keyword that would exclude the ticket from the compiled list > automatically? If a second search on all tickets with that keyword > results in hundreds or thousands of ticket numbers, that should raise > an alarm-bell. We do use this kind of system for the Rawhide rebase - bugs with the FutureFeature keyword (or RFE in the summary) are excluded. I'm not actually sure if there's a similar keyword for the EOL search, because the actual EOL search doesn't appear to be documented anywhere, unfortunately - there's no SOP for it and it's not in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches that I can see. Note that it's the program manager who's actually in charge of doing the EOL stuff - so it was poelcat for a long time, and now it's The Berge. Robyn, maybe we could improve this? We did have a thread a while back about improving documentation of the housekeeping tasks, but never got around to it. > It's sad to talk to Fedora users (and ex-Fedora users), who have made > bad experience in bugzilla related to this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
