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 ---- On Fri, 22 May 2020 15:37:21 -0500 Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at 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
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