Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > I'm not sure adding a new EOL status would be ok for Bugzilla guys, as far > as I know, there were some efforts to cut down BZ statuses (ON_DEV for I checked with bugzilla people, and Simon Green says that making a EOL resolution

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:06:07AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > So, all those bugs stay open on the EOL version until EOL+1? > > That seems poor to me. What do we do if someone clears needinfo and > says: Yes, this still affects me, I am running EOL release. Please fix > it. > > We cannot, the EOL

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:49:26AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Your whole proposal more or less *is* the heuristic 'don't autoclose > bugs with comments', because of how needinfo works in RH bugzilla. It's > not a status (as you imply by writing NEEDINFO) but a flag. If you set > the needinfo f

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 6, 2014 11:06 AM, "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:00:17 -0500 > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > I would like to see one of the following, in order of preference: > > > > 1. Step one: when a release hits EOL, move the bugs to NEEDINFO with > > a notice similar to the current

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:00:17 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > I would like to see one of the following, in order of preference: > > 1. Step one: when a release hits EOL, move the bugs to NEEDINFO with > a notice similar to the current one. (Essentially moving the > current warning back a little

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 04:00 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Additionally, but requiring some development, we could add some heuristics > like: don't autoclose bugs with many incoming duplicate pointers, or > possibly (as David suggests) bugs with comments, or bugs which have been > reopened, or (he

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 07:30:44AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > 2. As #1, but with no new CLOSED:EOL resolution. Instead, use WONTFIX > > or and add a ClosedEOL keyword automatically. This is uglier than > > the above but requires no bugzilla change. > I'm not sure adding a new EOL st

Re: proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:50:59PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The problem is that no-one seems to come up with an alternative that's > > any better. Leaving bugs on EOL versions open to rot away and be ignored > > is no use. We *could* give everyone privs to re

proposal for changes to auto-expiring bugs

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:50:59PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > The problem is that no-one seems to come up with an alternative that's > any better. Leaving bugs on EOL versions open to rot away and be ignored > is no use. We *could* give everyone privs to re-open closed bugs, I > guess, and I p