RFC: KDE Bugzilla Bugs Expiration

[Thomas Lübking]

On Freitag, 31. Juli 2015 14:05:09 CEST, laurent Montel wrote:

>> Especially for KDE PIM, given the size of the userbase and the amount of
>> developers (3), bugs often take more than a year to get to and 
>> to be fixed.
>
> +1
> As Daniel wrote we have a lot of bug and a very small team.
> So we can't able to fix bug in 1 year.
> And I don't want to see all bugs closed after 1 year because it's useful to 
> read all bug and sometime it takes me some months/years to fix bugs.

Wishes:
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should *never* be closed automatically - either a Human declares them WONTFIX or it's "patches welcome" - they may however be resubmissioned again once a year "is this actually reasonable?" so a developer can say "what a bullshit of an idea" and close it ;-)

Bugs:
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should get regular (every 6 months after inactivity?) updates like "is this still an issue", setting them "WAITING FOR INFO" and if not responded within the next month (and reopened) be closed "WORKS FOR ME"
This will eg. remind developers to "oh, yes - I fixed a dupe of this 3 month ago, totally forgot about this one".


Autoclosing a bug that maybe has not ever even been touched by a developer is a blunt offense and teaches users to either start nagging (in fear of getting their bug closed) or being frustrated (to avoid 4-letter words ;-)

Also "fixing" issues by ignoring them is really bad style.

/my2¢
Thomas