[Kdenlive-devel] Cleaning up Mantis ?

Albert ARIBAUD albert.aribaud at free.fr
Wed Mar 31 22:09:49 UTC 2010


Hugh Tebby a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was looking round the Mantis reports and there are 582 reports  :
> - 129 crash
> - 84 major
> - 178 minor
> - 166 feature requests
> - a few "tweaks" and "trivial"
> 
> Some of the reports are nearly two years old, quite a lot are awaiting 
> an answer from the original reporter.
> 
> I think some pretty heavy cleaning up should be done, in order to bring 
> the number of reports down to a manageable amount. I thought that maybe 
> closing all reports older than a certain date (over a year old ?) could 
> be a start, but I actually found some old reports that are still valid ( 
> for http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=92 , I tested and it 
> doesn't seem to work for me either).
> 
> So what do you think should be the course of action here ? Should 
> reports be closed without asking for more feedback from the original 
> reporter ? 
> 
> The best solution I see would be the following : 
> - running through all bug reports older than a year (maybe older than 6 
> months ?), and if the problem can't be reproduced simply close the 
> report. That should bring down the total number by one or two hundred.
> - go through all remaining crash reports and if one can't be reproduced 
> ask for feedback from the original reporter, and if no answer close the 
> report within a couple of weeks.
> 
> 
> Does that seem reasonable ?

I would suggest that before removing a bug report, a mail to the 
submitter be sent and if submitter does not respond within 7 days (or 
mail bounces) then delete the report, otherwise see with submitter if 
bug is still there / report is still relevant.

To speed things up, I can already tell bug 436 is still relevant. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.




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