Hi, For pim* it’s ok for me. We have a very old bug, but pim* changed a lot. Or some apps are dead (blogilo etc.) A lot of bug report are duplicated or obsolete.
Thanks for doing it. Regards Le jeudi 19 janvier 2023, 04:04:45 CET Justin a écrit : > Hi Nicolas, > > This has been discussed with Nate Graham directly who has approved this > cleanup of Bugzilla including the messaging behind it. > > I am happy to discuss any concerns that people have around this. I > understand Krita requested we exclude them from any gardening and that > has been done, however this is the only feedback I have received. > > The gardening team aims to find out if the bug reports are still > relevant by involving the users who reported them in determining if they > are still valid. This increases community involvement and helps KDE as > there isn't anywhere near enough manpower to review the thousands upon > thousands of bugs that haven't been touched in years. > > The bugs that we are interacting with are ones that have not had any > activity for over 2 years. We are simply trying to reinvigorate > discussion on those bugs to see if they are still valid. If the user > does not reply within the standard 30 day period after a bug is set to > NEEDSINFO, it is automatically closed by the Bug Janitor. > > I am not simply closing bugs, so I do take offense that care is not applied. > > I will halt it until it is approved by more developers. However if it is > decided that it isn't wanted then the KDE as a whole will need to entice > more people in sorting old bugs individually as it is clearly not a > priority right now for the majority. > > Regards, > > Justin > > On 19/1/23 11:05, Nicolas Fella wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can we please put the effort of "gardening" old bugreports on hold until > > we figured out whether this is actually something we want to do? Several > > people already expressed concerns about this. > > > > Improperly applied such mass changes can do more harm than good. We may > > close bugreports that are actually still useful just because nobody > > replied on then in a relatively short timeframe. > > > > Properly cleaning up old bugreports is important. However, it requires > > some level of care and expertise to judge whether a bugreport is still > > useful. Judging by the volume of bugreports that is pinged with the same > > copy&paste message this care is not applied here. > > > > At minimum such initiatives should be announced and discussed before > > doing them, to allow people to give their input on the proposal. I am > > not aware of any such announcement/discussion. > > > > Cheers > > > > Nicolas -- 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 KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts