old release bugs handling
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Mon Nov 10 19:14:38 UTC 2008
Nobody interested?
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When looking at the infra after eol issue, Toshio made me aware that
> nothing special is done for bugzilla in eol branches. Maybe it would
> be nice to have bugs filled against old branches associated with
> another product, such that they are easier to triage, and owner
> doesn't get those bugs automatically? As a disclaimer I know nothing
> about both the technical issues and the organizational issues involved
> by that proposal. The idea could be along (provided it is technically
> feasible):
>
> * when a bug is filled against an old release in the current fedora
> product, the product is automatically changed to 'fedora EOL'
> (or 'fedora Legacy' if that product is to be reused), which means
> that they don't necessarily go to the same mail adress than current
> releases. Also there is an automatic answer for those bugs, along:
>
> 'You are reporting a bug against an unsupported fedora release, you
> are urged to upgrade, and retry with the new release'.
>
> * the owner of this product is the owner of one of the old releases,
> for example could be the owner of F7 currently. That way, if this
> release is orphaned by the maintainer, he won't get bug reports
> for the old branch anymore. I would even suggest mass orphaning such
> that the default is that the maintainer doesn't get those bugs.
>
>
> Then people interested in triaging bugs for old releases could be
> subscribed to the adress all the product bugs are forwarded to,
> such that they can triage the bugs.
>
>
> Of course this would make more sense in case the infra was left
> open for old releases, as there would be people specifically interested
> in triaging those bugs and also interested in becoming maintainers
> of old branches, but even if the proposal to keep infra open for old
> branches is rejected --- and I am almost sure that it will be
> rejected --- it could still be something relevant to do.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> PS: tell me if this is better to ask that kind of question on the infra
> list.
>
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> Pat
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