[arch-general] Pruning the bugtracker

[JM]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at xsmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> Greg
>

I have seen this page but it is a bit of a mess. I will clean it up
and merge both lists during the weekend, possibly adding a category
'candidates for removal' based on my own criteria if that's OK.

JM