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

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Tue Jun 21 16:24:09 UTC 2016


On 06/21/2016 08:43 AM, Markus Zoeller wrote:
> 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
>>
>
DONT TOUCH BUG 968696!




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