Re: Deprecated Modules (as per minutes of the 2009-08-03 meeting)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mardi 10 août 2010, à 15:53 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
> So following our decision I propose the following actions:
> 	• Write the identified people whether they do not want their
> 	  bugs to be closed
> 	• Write to d-d-l (and gnome-hackers?) that we are about to get
> 	  rid of the bugs and that we will close them with the status
> 	  whiteboard entry "obsolete-module-2010". And let them know
> 	  that if anybody cares (i.e. distros), they should get the
> 	  data soonish.
> 	• Wait 14 days
> 	• Optional: Mark module so that it does not accept any news bugs
> 	• Mark bugs as NEEDINFO with the following text;
This module is
> 	  obsolete by now. Please check whether this bug is still valid
>  	  against the module that obsoleted this one. We will close
> 	  this bug as OBSOLETE with the status whiteboard
> 	  "obsolete-module-2010" soon.

Note that by doing this, you will lose the information of whether the
bug was NEEDINFO before you make it NEEDINFO.

> 	• Wait >6 weeks
> 	• Close as OBSOLETE with the status whiteboard set to
> 	  "obsolete-module-2010".

Can't we have a DEPRECATED resolution, that would not be accessible for
normal bugzilla users? OBSOLETE is used with another meaning for some
other modules ("you're using an obsolete version of my module").

> 	• Wait >2 weeks
> 	• Delete the module from bugzilla

Don't do that. Feel free to hide them by default (it's probably still
nice to be able to access them in some way). But not delete. You're losing
information.

Cheers,

Vincent

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