Fwd: closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

[John Poelstra]

Thanks for all of your work on this so far!

Jon Stanley said the following on 01/04/2008 12:11 PM Pacific Time:
> As part of a re-launch of the bug triage project [1,2], I believe that
> it would be beneficial to mass close the bugs that are for releases
> that are no longer maintained.  Please find my proposal for this
> below.  Sorry for cross-posting, but it's relevant across multiple
> communities within Fedora.
> 
> I will be at FUDCon in order to discuss the very topic of the
> re-launch of the triage project.
> 
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-January/msg00009.html
> [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-January/msg00000.html
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 4, 2008 1:45 PM
> Subject: closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases
> To: fedora-advisory-board at redhat.com
> 
> 
> I can put some time this weekend into closing out old bugs, however,
> before doing so, I wanted to make sure that our messaging is crystal
> clear.  What I had been doing for kernel bugs is placing them in
> NEEDINFO_REPORTER and asking if the problem still existed, etc after
> manually reviewing the bugs (some I changed to a current release
> because it was mentioned in comments, but not in the version
> metadata).  However, this won't scale - there's no way that I or
> anybody else can reasonably review 3600 bugs for ones that are
> incorrectly tagged.  This leaves us with ~9000 bugs (F7, F8, and
> rawhide) to deal with (still a monumental task).  I propose doing
> something similar with rawhide bugs that haven't been touched in ~6
> months, not sure of the number of those, haven't looked yet.  Here's
> the proposed comment to WONTFIX these.  I want to get the most input
> possible before doing this:
> 
> <begin>
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug.  Unfortunately, this
> version of Fedora has reach end-of-life and is no longer maintained.
> Please refer to  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle for an
> explanation of the Fedora lifecycle policy.

In addition, how about a link to this email-thread explaining why this 
action is considered necessary (e.g. we need to clear the deck, etc.)?

> We therefore regret the necessity of closing this bug report WONTFIX.
> Please upgrade to a currently maintained release of Fedora, currently
> either Fedora 7 or Fedora 8, and attempt to reproduce this bug.  If
> the bug still exists, feel free to re-open this bug report, changing
> the version accordingly, or file a new bug report (you can use the
> 'Clone as Bug' link at the top of this bug report in order to preserve
> the content of this bug in the new one).

s/'Fedora 7 or Fedora 8'/'Fedora 8 or rawhide'  My hunch is that if 
someone says "this is still broken in Fedora 7", a developer would 
naturally ask next, "how about in Fedora 8 or rawhide?"  Save them a 
step and some frustration.

John