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

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On vrijdag 16 november 2018 10:37:08 CET Luigi Toscano wrote:

> 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.

I know it's well-meant, and it does help to get old bugs resolved -- but it 
really should use a script that checks whether the original reporter has added 
a comment since it was set to needinfo, and in that case just reopen it.

I know that the script that was intended to do that didn't work, and I've 
tried to figure out whether I could fix it, but failed in that. But right now, 
the closing to WORKSFOME plays havoc with my bugzilla routine -- and worse, it 
makes me hesitate to put bugs in the NEEDINFO state.


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