Fwd: closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 22:15:57 UTC 2008


John Poelstra (poelstra at redhat.com) said: 
> Most seemed to be in agreement that going forward, at the GA of each new 
> release, the version of all existing rawhide bugs would be mass changed to 
> the GA version.  For example, for the upcoming release, open rawhide bugs 
> at the time of GA we would changed to Fedora 9.  This would have a few 
> benefits as we go forward for each release:
>   1) encourage the closing of rawhide bugs that qualify
>   2) anchor the remaining rawhide bugs to the closest GA release so there 
> is a marker in the future as to when they were reported.

Hm, this runs afoul of things like hosted projects that use Fedora bugzilla
as essentially an upstream bug tracker.

Bill




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