---- On Fri, 22 May 2020 15:37:21 -0500 Stephen Finucane <stephenfin@redhat.com> wrote ----
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:11 +0200, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
Hi,
[This is a topic from the PTG etherpad [0]. As the PTG time is intentionally kept short, let's try to discuss it or even conclude it before the PTG]
We have more than 800 open bugs in nova [1] and the oldest is 8 years old. Can we close old bugs?
Yes.
If yes, what would be the closing criteria? Age and status?
Age is probably easiest. I would prefer to keep those with an open, not -2'd review around, since that implies there might be something to pick up, but other than that, simple age will do. You're thinking something similar.
Personally I would close every bug that is not updated in the last 3 years and not in INPROGRESS state.
I roughly counted and it is ~95 bugs which are older than <3 years which does not seems to decrease much as compared to 800.
This is very conservative. 18 months would be more than enough, IMO. As Sean has said elsewhere, we have other bugs in Bugzilla and we're quite aggressive in closing those if we're realistically not going to work on a resolution any time soon.
I think 18 months make sense and leave comments as "try on the master(or <= stein) if that is fixed or not, if not please report it back". -gmann
Stephen
Cheers, gibi
[0] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-victoria-ptg [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE