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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
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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
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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

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Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)