On 19 June 2011 11:52, Dennis Lundberg <denn...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2011-06-19 00:30, Benson Margulies wrote: >> I just looked at the 'blocker' issues. We have a variety of very old >> JIRAs here. None of the ones I looked at have a self-contained test >> case that would can be downloaded, run, and converted to an >> integration test, etc. > > This is one of the major obstacles we have at the Maven project. The > sheer amount of old and sometimes really old issues in JIRA. For the > last couple of years I've pinged reporters of new issues straight away > for test cases, if none was attached to a new issue. But as you say > there are lots of old ones that are practically impossible to resolve > without some kind of test case. > > Maybe we should plan a JIRA cleanup day? Let's find a date where some of > us on the dev team can work together to clean up old issues. We announce > that together with your proposed letter to the users list as well. > >> What's the policy? My temptation would be to comment on them asking if >> the OP is still interested (in some cases, 5 years later), and, if so, >> can they come up with a repeatable test case, and if not close as not >> a real bug. > > I've done this kind of thing for plugins in the past. For those I have > opted to close the issue as "Incomplete", because it lacks a > reproducible test case.
+1 This will make it easier to find later if necessary. I think it's vital that the resolution distinguish such cases from fixed bugs and non-bugs. >> I don't mind in some cases doing work to build a test case, but to go >> to all this trouble for a bug that was opened about maven 2.0.x, where >> it may not be that easy to reconstruct the critical components of the >> problem, seems a dubious use of time. > > Agreed. > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Dennis Lundberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
