[arch-general] Pruning the bugtracker

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

JM <fijam at archlinux.us> wrote:
> I have browsed through all High and Medium severity bugreports and
> categorized some of them here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Fijam .
>
> 'Candidates for closing' are divided into two categories: strong and
> weak. Strong candidates have not been replied to in over 4 months
> (with some bugs seeing no activity for over a year) with the last
> comment asking for more information or confirmation whether the bug
> still persists. I have not yet started issuing closure requests but
> will do so in two weeks if noone replies to those reports. Weak
> candidates have not been replied to in less than four months, the
> resolution of the bug was unclear or the original submitter found
> another solution and failed to provide any more information. I will
> wait for another month before issuing closure requests. Note: jelle
> van der waa (jelly) asked for confirmation on many of those bugs and
> deserves all the praise.
>
> I have also identified some bugs where more input or a confirmation of
> a fix is needed and asked for it. Will try to do initial triaging on
> those bugs or mark them as candidates for closing if the submitter
> fails to respond.
>
> There was also a couple of bug reports that seemed to be going
> nowhere. There was either a failure in communication, unresolved
> argument, a patch with no feedback from the developers or a request to
> split a bug into two or more specific reports. These should probably
> be reviewed again.
>
> There are still Low and Very Low severity bugs to go through, so
> perhaps some other user wants to pick up where I left :)

Thanks for doing this. You could have used the already set up
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO page though instead of
your user page.
That might need a bit of cleaning up but if you're willing to transfer
properly the ones on your page there i will help with this if you lack
the time to invest doing the clean up yourself.

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Greg