Le Friday 31 July 2015, 11:07:54 Daniel Vrátil a écrit : > On Friday, July 31, 2015 10:12:00 AM Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think one of the problems with our current Bugzilla database is that it > > contains a lot of "old" bugs and wishs. > > True that! > > > As the manpower is limited and we sometimes not even keep up with the > > incoming new bugs, might it be a good idea to adopt a similar strategy > > like > > the Qt Project and expire bugs that got not changed since more than one > > year? > > > > The idea would that a scripts closes all bugs that have no activity in the > > last year e.g. on a weekly basis and the closing comment would contain > > some > > gentle note that if the bug is still an issue, the reporter (or any person > > on CC) can just reopen it again. > > We were actually discussing something similar for KDE PIM but our idea was > based on Fedora, i.e. closing all bugs for given release when the release > goes EOL. There is a comment added by a bot 3 weeks before EOL stating that > the release will go EOL and if user thinks the bug is still valid in > newer/current release, they should re-assign to newer release. When the > release actually goes EOL all bugs still assigned to it are closed. The > advantage of this approach IMO is that it also clears out bugs where the > reporters are no longer available/willing to provide additional info to > devs and at the same time without losing bugs which might be important yet > non-trivial to fix (read: take more than a year for a dev to get there). > > Especially for KDE PIM, given the size of the userbase and the amount of > developers (3), bugs often take more than a year to get to and to be fixed.
+1 As Daniel wrote we have a lot of bug and a very small team. So we can't able to fix bug in 1 year. And I don't want to see all bugs closed after 1 year because it's useful to read all bug and sometime it takes me some months/years to fix bugs. Regards > > I think this would make a lot of time consuming bug triaging much easier. > > Cannot agree more :) > > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > Greetings > > Christoph -- Laurent Montel | laurent.mon...@kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.fr