[arch-general] Pruning the bugtracker

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 05/04/2011 09:35 PM, JM wrote:
> 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
I have been trying to get the bugtracker a bit cleaned up, there are a 
lot of kernel related bugs which are reported with a version < 2.6.35.
Most of these bugs are 'waiting on response' and I'd say they should be 
closed.

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Jelle van der Waa