On 26 Oct 2018, at 04:26, Richard Smith 
<rich...@metafoo.co.uk<mailto:rich...@metafoo.co.uk>> wrote:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 05:10, Kristof Beyls via cfe-dev 
<cfe-...@lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-...@lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
On 5 Oct 2018, at 07:04, Dean Michael Berris 
<dean.ber...@gmail.com<mailto:dean.ber...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Thank you for starting this conversation! I look forward to the results of the 
BoF discussion summarised as well.

Dean, all,

There was a lively discussion at the BoF; we’ve tried to take notes at 
https://etherpad.net/p/LLVMBugLifeCycleBoF but probably have failed to capture 
all the points. The slides used to kick start the discussion can be found at 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERB9IQAjSwaNpEnlbchQzd_V9IQlLOojgo9J0_NXvYA/edit

Both at the BoF and in the mail thread, there have been many suggestions for 
improvements. So many that if we’d want to introduce all of them at once, we’d 
probably get stuck and not introduce any. To try and make progress on the ones 
I myself feel are most useful, I’ve volunteered for 2 actions:

1. Write up a proposal for documentation on what to do during bug 
triaging/closing/etc. I’ve just done so and put it up for review at 
https://reviews.llvm.org/D53691.
2. Write an email to the mailing lists to ask for volunteers for being on the 
“default-cc” list for components, implying you’re willing to triage bugs 
reported against those components. I’ve decided to first try and get consensus 
on what is expected when triaging a bug (see point above) before actively 
searching for volunteers for all components. That being said, both at the dev 
meeting and in the days after, I already received many requests from people to 
be added to the default-cc list for specific components. Of course, I’m very 
happy to add people volunteering to default-cc lists, so if you don’t want to 
wait to get added to a default-cc list, please email 
bugs-ad...@lists.llvm.org<mailto:bugs-ad...@lists.llvm.org> or raise it as a 
ticket in bugs.llvm.org<http://bugs.llvm.org/> under “Bugzilla 
Admin”/“Products”.

Furthermore, since the BoF, I’ve seen a quite a few requests to clean up and 
introduce new components in Bugzilla. We’ve implemented the changes quickly and 
will aim to continue to have a quick response time in the future. Please file a 
ticket in bugs.llvm.org<http://bugs.llvm.org/> under “Bugzilla 
Admin”/“Products” if you want to request a specific change.

For most of the other points that were raised: I don’t currently plan on acting 
on them immediately myself and hope to first see an impact of the above actions.

In the original post, there was a suggestion to bring back the "UNCONFIRMED" 
status. I think that'd be a great idea, as it both makes it easy to search for 
untriaged bugs and to give feedback to a reporter that their bug is real and 
acknowledged. Is that planned?

I hadn’t seen too much feedback on the idea for introducing (reintroducing?) 
the “UNCONFIRMED” status, so hadn’t planned on making changes to that now.
However, I also think it’s a good idea, so I’ll investigate in more detail now 
if it wouldn’t be overly hard on the Bugzilla admin side to do so (e.g. I 
believe I’ll have to give all existing users the rights to be able to confirm 
bugs). If the “UNCONFIRMED” status can be introduced relatively easily, I now 
plan to do so, and will adapt the proposed documentation at 
https://reviews.llvm.org/D53691 accordingly.
Thanks for pointing to this!

Also, a big problem with bugzilla as we have it configured today is that 
commenting on an existing bug often sends mail to literally no-one. Can we 
reconfigure this so that llvmbugs gets mail for comments on bugs, not just for 
opening and closing bugs?

I see you’ve created https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39445 for this in 
the mean time, and that a bit of discussion has started there - including 
whether sending an email on all comments wouldn’t result in too much spam on 
the llvmbugs mailing list. I don’t have a strong opinion either way myself. I 
hope that making sure that there is at least someone on the default-cc list for 
every component will result in comments on bugs being emailed to at least one 
person.
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