bugzilla triage madness :-/

[Andrew Farris]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Since yesterday, I've been flooded with easily over hundred bugzilla
> mails. Someone is active setting tickets to NEEDINFO without any efforts
> to verify that an issue is fixed. That activity has also reached my
> tickets about conflicts and unowned directories. It is beyond my time to
> process such a high number of tickets now after packagers ignored them for
> a long time. In several cases I could have fixed the problems myself but
> the lame acls don't permit that.
> 
> If you want to receive less tickets in the future, mission
> accomplished. Reporting bugs is among the most thankless tasks in Fedora
> Land. When I enter something in bugzilla, I want to reach humans, not mad
> robots, who are unable to understand a ticket and who close it just for
> fun. The person or script who touches my tickets and threatens with
> closing them after 30 days is successful in telling me that my bug reports
> are not appreciated. Thank you. :-/

FYI, that was a bot running on behalf of the bug triage project and (as I and 
others understood it) was not supposed to be flooding bugs in rawhide but only 
in older releases... to weed out stale and forgotten bugs.  Its a good thing, 
though partially seems to have gone awry at the moment.

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