On Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2023 22:39:45 CET Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, 19. Jänner 2023, 12:26:08 CET schrieb Nicolas Fella: > > Am 19.01.23 um 04:04 schrieb Justin: > > > 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. > > > > Anecdotally many people don't like such automated changes being done to > > their bugreports that don't actually engage with the content of the report. > > Well, anecdotally you will mostly get feedback from people who don't like it. > Unless something is exceptionally great, few people will take the time to > speak out in favor of something that is already happening. > > > > 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. > > > > Properly "triaging" old reports requires at least some level of > > understanding of the project, codebase etc. I'm afraid there is no > > simple solution to that and rule-based approaches aren't good enough. > > Even taking things like CONFIRMED status or wishlist priority into > > account assumes that these have actually been consistently applied. > > As a maintainer on a small project, I'm quite happy to get an occasional > nudge > on old reports. Yes, I do occasionally go over old reports to see if they are > still valid, but having somebody else doing this methodically makes sure I > don't gloss over some bug that could be closed or fixed. > > Having this done by someone else without too much internal knowledge is an > absolute plus in my opinion. After all, if you want to clean up your attic, > you try to find a helper who does not have the same emotional attachment as > yourself. > > > > > 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. > > Speaking for KPhotoAlbum, I really appreciate the bugzilla gardening. Thank > you for doing it!
I can second that for the KMyMoney project. An occasional poke and the automated cleanup when no response arrives where it is needed helps a lot. -- Regards Thomas Baumgart ------------------------------------------------------------- With every day I come closer to the grave and learn something new. It all happens because I have wandered around too much and stumbled into the Linux world - which is a fantastic place to be! (Algis Kabaila †) -------------------------------------------------------------
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