Policy on stale bugs (was Re: Closing NEEDSINFO bugs after 30 days)

[Luigi Toscano]

Andrew Crouthamel ha scritto:
> I've been spending a lot of time browsing, searching, and filtering our bugs 
> in Bugzilla. One of the areas I've found that could use improvement, are the 
> NEEDSINFO bugs. Often, bugs are placed into this status, either awaiting 
> additional information or backtraces, never to be updated again. We have 
> NEEDSINFO bugs dating back to 2009.

Hi,
the (semi)automated process which pings and then closes NEEDINFO bugs was 
implemented, but I've noticed another policy which was never discussed (as far 
as I know) here: bugs opened for a while

I disagree with this policy, and I'm not alone (at least another maintainer 
asked for his product to be excluded):
- not all projects distinguished between CONFIRMED and UNCONFIRMED (now 
REPORTED), so it's possible that a perfectly valid bug or request (especially 
requests) seems stale. You may say that it's easy to flip the status again. 
I'd say that it's a unneeded step.
- at most the script could add a new comment asking for updates, but not 
immediately change the status out of the blue.
- as mentioned, it was not discussed.

Please disable it for now, or just enable it for projects who explicitly wants 
it for now.

-- 
Luigi