Re: 2009 Q3 Report

[Javier Jardón <javierjc1982 gmail com>]

Hey Andre,

2009/10/3 Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>:
>
> Quick initial version. Please feel free to change/enhance:
>
> In August GNOME Bugzilla was updated to version 3.4 by Max-Kanat
> Alexander with huge help of Olav Vitters and Owen Taylor. The previous
> version was several years old and did not receive any upstream security
> fixes anymore. It also had several GNOME-only enhancements that
> partially have been ported to 3.4 though some regressions remained.
> The server hardware was also improved so timeout issues when running
> complex queries do not happen anymore.
>
> TODO: Is there a way to find out the top bug closers of the last 3
> months?
>
> 9227 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened* and 8751 were
> closed**.
>
> The GNOME Bugsquad has started to have monthly meetings to discuss
> policies and issues. The new policy to handle old forgotten reports is
> in place and has been revised after feedback from developers.

I think a link to the meeting page would be good: [1]

How about speak about the new policy changes? Something like this
(from your blog post):

"- Bug reports in GNOME Bugzilla (not enhancement requests an in
UNCONFIRMED status) with 1 year without any activity will be set to
NEEDINFO state and reporters will be asked to update the report’s
status by testing again on a recent GNOME version. A new stock answer
will be made available for this [2]
- All NEEDINFO bugs without a response after 6 weeks will be closed as
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE.
- The “FIXED” stock answers will kindly ask bug reporters to verify
the fix once it has landed in their distribution and if they have some
time. The specific stock answers will be updated accordingly [3]."

Also, I think mention the work to clean bugzilla of
obsolete/unmaintained modules would be good too: (from you blog post,
again):

"There are many modules in GNOME Bugzilla that have not seen any code
changes for years (except for translation updates). Bugsquad members
will try to identify those obsolete/unmaintained modules and contact
the maintainers. We expect a response within four weeks from the
maintainers. Without a response the remaining reports will probably be
closed as WONTFIX while explaining to the reporter that the module is
not maintained anymore and will not receive any updates. You can track
work already done here: [5]"

And something new: we have our own module to keep track of assigned tasks [4]

Hope helps,

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/Meetings
[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591222
[3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590840
[4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594245
[5] http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/DeprecatedModules

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