On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:48 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > I've received several emails from bugzilla now about the severity, > product, etc. being changed on bugs I'm the reporter or a CC on. These > are bugs that have been closed for a while (1-2 years or more). Does > this (a) really need to be changed and (b) really need to send email? Here is what happened. The Triage folks are closing out old trackers, for say Fedora Core 4/5/etc... These trackers are done, not used anymore, and should be closed. However in bugzilla code, whenever you modify a tracker bug (IE a bug that depends on other bugs) it will send mail to the people attached to every bug it depends upon. Add to that some staged changes that are in place for Bugzilla so that the next time some bugs are poked it'll do the conversions of priorities and products, you wind up triggering that for a number of older bugs. Yes this is bothersome, and yes it's some spam. But it's somewhat unavoidable due to how we use bugzilla and just the built up cruft of unclosed trackers and constantly being a bit schizophrenic about priorities, severity, and the name of Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core/Fedora. This will only get "better" in the future as we manage our tracker bugs better and hopefully don't go about renaming the product again. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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