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Re: Tidying-up the Issues DB
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Trevor Daniels |
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Re: Tidying-up the Issues DB |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:36:25 -0000 |
James wrote Monday, October 26, 2015 11:54 AM
> On 26/10/15 11:29, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>> Devs, Bug Squad:
>>
>> Many of the Issues with Status:Started are no longer active, with many not
>> seeing any change for several years. Following the move of the Issues DB
>> from GC to SF many of the original owners of these Started Issues have not
>> re-registered at SF; indeed many are no longer active on the devel list, and
>> it seems inconsistent for these issues to have a status of Started when they
>> have no Owner. I'd like to tidy up this situation by reverting these issues
>> to Status:Accepted so they become more obviously available for someone else
>> to select for further work by appearing in the Open (Accepted) list.
>>
>> To this end I've already reassigned those not seeing any action for over 3
>> years. Unless I hear objections I'll continue reassigning more recently
>> moribund issues until the Open (Begun) and Open (Patch) lists reflect more
>> closely the issues actually under active consideration.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> I think you should also be setting the 'owner' if it has any to 'blank'
> (if that wasn't already implied) for issues that are 'Started' and have
> an 'owner' but have had no activity for a similar amount of time.
I shall, although the Owner field is almost always blank anyway for these
moribund issues. During the migration it was filled in only for those Devs who
were already registered at SF.
> I think this may overlap the 'patch-abandoned' discussion - which i
> still need to go back a review as part of my Patch Meister duties.
I don't think what I said conflicts with anything we discussed then - I'm just
getting on with doing it. Usually I shall leave the patch status unchanged,
unless on inspection I think it looks wrong, in which case I shall add a
comment explaining any change I make.
Trevor