[RFC] Disable bug reporting till Bugzilla situation is improved

[David Edmundson]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is probably a controversial proposal: Let's disable bug reporting for
> Plasma until the current situation is improved.
>
> Reason: the bugtracker in it's current state gets flooded by new incoming
> reports and we are not able to get the water out of our cellar as long as new
> water is coming in. So let's put a plug into the leaking pipe and then start
> to get the water out and let's fix the leak properly and then turn on the water
> again.
>
> I don't know whether it's possible (need to talk to sysadmins), but I would
> keep it open for kde devs, so that we would get reports for newly introduced
> regressions/bugs in master.
>
> This has to be absolutely temporarily and should be stopped before the release
> of 4.11. If I had to set a hard date I would say June, 26th, which is the beta
> 2 release.
>
To put in some real numbers, that's closing bugzilla for 30 days.
On average Plasma currently gets 4.8 bugs and 0.4 wishlist reports a day [1]

Based on this, closing bugzilla will save us having to deal with ~ 17 reports.

>From that, my opinion would be that it's more trouble than it's worth.

David

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?tops=50&days=100
"opened" column divided by 100 at time of writing.

> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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