"Gardening" old bugreports

[Justin]

Hi Nicolas,

This has been discussed with Nate Graham directly who has approved this 
cleanup of Bugzilla including the messaging behind it.

I am happy to discuss any concerns that people have around this. I 
understand Krita requested we exclude them from any gardening and that 
has been done, however this is the only feedback I have received.

The gardening team aims to find out if the bug reports are still 
relevant by involving the users who reported them in determining if they 
are still valid. This increases community involvement and helps KDE as 
there isn't anywhere near enough manpower to review the thousands upon 
thousands of bugs that haven't been touched in years.

The bugs that we are interacting with are ones that have not had any 
activity for over 2 years. We are simply trying to reinvigorate 
discussion on those bugs to see if they are still valid. If the user 
does not reply within the standard 30 day period after a bug is set to 
NEEDSINFO, it is automatically closed by the Bug Janitor.

I am not simply closing bugs, so I do take offense that care is not applied.

I will halt it until it is approved by more developers. However if it is 
decided that it isn't wanted then the KDE as a whole will need to entice 
more people in sorting old bugs individually as it is clearly not a 
priority right now for the majority.

Regards,

Justin

On 19/1/23 11:05, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can we please put the effort of "gardening" old bugreports on hold until
> we figured out whether this is actually something we want to do? Several
> people already expressed concerns about this.
>
> Improperly applied such mass changes can do more harm than good. We may
> close bugreports that are actually still useful just because nobody
> replied on then in a relatively short timeframe.
>
> Properly cleaning up old bugreports is important. However, it requires
> some level of care and expertise to judge whether a bugreport is still
> useful. Judging by the volume of bugreports that is pinged with the same
> copy&paste message this care is not  applied here.
>
> At minimum such initiatives should be announced and discussed before
> doing them, to allow people to give their input on the proposal. I am
> not aware of any such announcement/discussion.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolas
>