[openstack-dev] [nova] I'm going to expire open bug reports older than 18 months.

Markus Zoeller mzoeller at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 21 12:43:02 UTC 2016


A reminder that this will happen in ~2 weeks.

Please note that you can spare bug reports if you leave a comment there
which says one of these (case-sensitive flags):
* CONFIRMED FOR: NEWTON
* CONFIRMED FOR: MITAKA
* CONFIRMED FOR: LIBERTY

On 23.05.2016 13:02, Markus Zoeller wrote:
> TL;DR: Automatic closing of 185 bug reports which are older than 18
> months in the week R-13. Skipping specific bug reports is possible. A
> bug report comment explains the reasons.
> 
> 
> I'd like to get rid of more clutter in our bug list to make it more
> comprehensible by a human being. For this, I'm targeting our ~185 bug
> reports which were reported 18 months ago and still aren't in progress.
> That's around 37% of open bug reports which aren't in progress. This
> post is about *how* and *when* I do it. If you have very strong reasons
> to *not* do it, let me hear them.
> 
> When
> ----
> I plan to do it in the week after the non-priority feature freeze.
> That's week R-13, at the beginning of July. Until this date you can
> comment on bug reports so they get spared from this cleanup (see below).
> Beginning from R-13 until R-5 (Newton-3 milestone), we should have
> enough time to gain some overview of the rest.
> 
> I also think it makes sense to make this a repeated effort, maybe after
> each milestone/release or monthly or daily.
> 
> How
> ---
> The bug reports which will be affected are:
> * in status: [new, confirmed, triaged]
> * AND without assignee
> * AND created at: > 18 months
> A preview of them can be found at [1].
> 
> You can spare bug reports if you leave a comment there which says
> one of these (case-sensitive flags):
> * CONFIRMED FOR: NEWTON
> * CONFIRMED FOR: MITAKA
> * CONFIRMED FOR: LIBERTY
> 
> The expired bug report will have:
> * status: won't fix
> * assignee: none
> * importance: undecided
> * a new comment which explains *why* this was done
> 
> The comment the expired bug reports will get:
>     This is an automated cleanup. This bug report got closed because
>     it is older than 18 months and there is no open code change to
>     fix this. After this time it is unlikely that the circumstances
>     which lead to the observed issue can be reproduced.
>     If you can reproduce it, please:
>     * reopen the bug report
>     * AND leave a comment "CONFIRMED FOR: <RELEASE_NAME>"
>       Only still supported release names are valid.
>       valid example: CONFIRMED FOR: LIBERTY
>       invalid example: CONFIRMED FOR: KILO
>     * AND add the steps to reproduce the issue (if applicable)
> 
> 
> Let me know if you think this comment gives enough information how to
> handle this situation.
> 
> 
> References:
> [1] http://45.55.105.55:8082/bugs-dashboard.html#tabExpired
> 


-- 
Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)




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