Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-08-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: As far as I am concerned I'd like to drop any reports from 2.16 and below, but I see how that may be a little to aggressive. What about dropping reports from 2.14 and below? Bug-Buddy reports from 2.14 and older are now rejected at

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mar, 10-04-2007 a las 19:02 -0600, Elijah Newren escribió: On 4/9/07, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, this can be an indication that your fixes are not reaching the affected people. Maybe you need to explicitly poke the distro(s) in question and tell them, this

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mié, 11-04-2007 a las 10:31 -0600, Elijah Newren escribió: In other words, yes, what you ask can be done and _is_ being done. This is totally awesome :) I didn't know our Bugzilla infrastructure was so nice. But to avoid false-positives, we require human intervention (and only a few

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-11 Thread Elijah Newren
On 4/11/07, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is totally awesome :) I didn't know our Bugzilla infrastructure was so nice. Olav rocks. :-) But to avoid false-positives, we require human intervention (and only a few people have the appropriate privileges) involving

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-10 Thread Elijah Newren
On 4/9/07, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El sáb, 07-04-2007 a las 16:39 +0100, Richard Hughes escribió: I'm sure other maintainers must be getting as demoralised as myself when dealing with so many duplicates of a fixed bug. Still, this can be an indication that your

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-10 Thread Elijah Newren
On 4/8/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:01:14PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Given the length of Redhat, SuSE and Debian release cycles, this will just make bug-buddy useless for many stable users. Ideally you could Honestly, I think that =2.14

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:19:12PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:01:14PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 08 avril 2007 à 14:20 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: As far as I am concerned I'd like

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-09 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El sáb, 07-04-2007 a las 16:39 +0100, Richard Hughes escribió: I'm sure other maintainers must be getting as demoralised as myself when dealing with so many duplicates of a fixed bug. Still, this can be an indication that your fixes are not reaching the affected people. Maybe you need to

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: As far as I am concerned I'd like to drop any reports from 2.16 and below, but I see how that may be a little to aggressive. What about dropping reports from 2.14 and below? If there are no objections, I'll start with dropping

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 08 avril 2007 à 14:20 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: As far as I am concerned I'd like to drop any reports from 2.16 and below, but I see how that may be a little to aggressive. What about dropping reports from 2.14

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:01:14PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 08 avril 2007 à 14:20 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: As far as I am concerned I'd like to drop any reports from 2.16 and below, but I see how that

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-08 Thread Alex Jones
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: BTW, I'm working on a non-GNOME-dependent replacement to bug-buddy, which will report crashes in the Debian BTS instead. In the future, it should save you the Debian-related bugs (if we can manage the number of bugs...) What's wrong

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 08 avril 2007 à 16:19 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : Oh, and a warning: without having some system in place to detect duplicates automatically, you will be overwhelmed. Definitely. This, and the fact such reports are mostly useless without debugging symbols available. I have some

dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-07 Thread Paolo Borelli
Hi, in the last months the bugzilla traffic has risen exponentially because of (thanks to?) the new bug-buddy which actually manages to submit a higher percentage of the crashes. This has some very good effects (since not only we get most of the bugreports, but we also have statistics

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-07 Thread Thomas Wood
On 07/04/07 16:13, Paolo Borelli wrote: Hi, [...] Personally I am not able anymore to handle my bugmail anymore and even useful bugreports get lost in the noise. I usually mark any Crash: ... bugmail as read without even looking at it nowadays. As a first step, what do you think of just

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-07 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:13 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: Personally I am not able anymore to handle my bugmail anymore and even useful bugreports get lost in the noise. Tell me about it. gnome-power-manager 2.18.0 had a bug where it would segfault when you locked the screen if HAL was not

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew Sobala
Richard Hughes wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:13 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: Personally I am not able anymore to handle my bugmail anymore and even useful bugreports get lost in the noise. Tell me about it. gnome-power-manager 2.18.0 had a bug where it would segfault when you locked

Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

2007-04-07 Thread Elijah Newren
[Just noticed that Andrew made most of my email obsolete before I finished. Maybe you'll see something useful, though, so I'll still send it.] On 4/7/07, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:13 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: Personally I am not able anymore to handle