The only thing we have is a way to do mass-edits without sending any email. That doesn't seem suitable for mass-closing; it's more for things like reassigning lots of bugs to another product. For closing I assume you do want to send email to the reporters.
Maybe we can do some script to close the bugs spread over a longer period of time. I'll look into it. Meanwhile... maybe you can do some loud blog posts calling for triagers? :) -- Nicolás 2018-02-10 17:48 GMT-03:00 Nate Graham <pointedst...@zoho.com>: > + sysad...@kde.org > > KDE Sysadmins, is there anything special we need to do before doing a mass > bug close? around 2,500 bugs would be closed in a short period of time. > > Martin, good idea. I'll remove that line. > > Nate > > > > On 02/10/2018 01:42 PM, Martin Flöser wrote: >> >> Am 2018-02-10 21:24, schrieb Nate Graham: >>> >>> Hello folks, >>> We have more than 2,500 Plasma 4 bugzilla tickets that we don't intend >>> to look at or triage. We've already prevented new tickets from being >>> filed, but it doesn't do anyone any good to just have the old ones >>> sitting there. My sense is that most of the relevant bugs and wishlist >>> items are already represented in the plasmashell product, so what do >>> you think about doing a mass-close? >>> >>> I was thinking of closing them all with one of the following two >>> messages (top one for bugs, bottom one for wishlist items). What do >>> you think? >> >> >> +1 on that. If you want to do that, please get in contact with sysadmin >> team before. They might have some requirements regarding mass closing of >> bugreports (at least in the past this resulted in email traffic which put us >> on spammer lists). >> >> Concerning the text: >> I would cut the "Developers have not been triaging Plasma 4 bugs since >> that time.", the message that it is EOL is sufficient for what we want to >> tell. Also it opens an attack vector (lazy devs don't look for bugs). >> >> For reference the message I put into KWin for mass closing bugs: >> >> As of git commit 34027455aaa2ee738c45987ca2d8cb7d65491bf0 window tiling >> support has been removed from KWin. This change will go into version 4.10, >> the upcoming release 4.9 still provides window tiling support. The >> discussion has been taken on the developer mailing list [1]. A short summary >> of the reasons here: >> * it is unmaintained >> * it is a mode not used by any of the core KWin team >> * original developer said at Akademy 2012 that he is not interested in >> picking up the work again >> * tiling has quite some bugs, e.g. multi screen not supported >> * is conflicting with other concepts in KWin, e.g. activities >> >> A result of this change is that we will not implement any new features or >> fix bugs related to window tiling. >> >> There is ongoing work to provide window tiling as an external KWin script. >> We encourage everyone to participate in this effort and to make it really >> rock and have it available once 4.10 is going to be released. The current >> state can be found in the git repository [2] in the directory >> kwin/scripts/tiling. >> >> [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=133149673110558&w=2 >> [2] https://github.com/mgottschlag/kwin-tiling/ >> >> Cheers >> Martin >> >>> >>> Nate >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For bugs: >>> ========= >>> >>> Hello! >>> >>> This bug was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support >>> status in October 2015. Developers have not been triaging Plasma 4 >>> bugs since that time. Happily, because KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell >>> was been almost completely rewritten for better performance and >>> usability, it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in >>> Plasma 5. Additionally, bug triaging resources are extremely limited; >>> if you would like to get involved in this effort, please see >>> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging >>> >>> Accordingly, and we hope you understand why we must close this bug. If >>> the issue described here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or >>> later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" >>> product after reading >>> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting >>> >>> Thanks for your understanding! >>> >>> Nate Graham >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For wishlist items: >>> =================== >>> >>> Hello! >>> >>> This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached >>> end-of-support status in October 2015. Developers have not been >>> triaging Plasma 4 requests since that time. Happily, because KDE >>> Plasma 5's desktop shell was been almost completely rewritten, it is >>> likely that this feature request has already been implemented in >>> Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Additionally, bug triaging >>> resources are extremely limited; if you would like to get involved in >>> this effort, please see >>> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging >>> >>> Accordingly, and we hope you understand why we must close this feature >>> request. If the requested feature is still not implemented in KDE >>> Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the >>> "plasmashell" product after reading >>> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting >>> >>> Thanks for your understanding! >>> >>> Nate Graham > >