closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

[John Poelstra]

Jon Stanley said the following on 01/04/2008 10:45 AM Pacific Time:
> 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 version of Fedora has reach end-of-life and is no longer maintained.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.
> 
> 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).
> 
> We regret any inconvenience that this may cause you, and thank you for
> your continued support of Fedora!
> <end>
> 
> I propose starting with FC6, since that recently reached EOL and
> people would be understanding about it (hopefully).
> Comments/thoughts/suggestions/flames welcome.
> 

I think this is good!  Probably best to roll this into an overall 
proposal that we could review at FUDCon and in the meantime float it by 
fedora-devel list and fedora-test-list to get some community feedback 
and buyin.

John