[RFC] Disable bug reporting till Bugzilla situation is improved

[Martin Gräßlin]

Am 2013-05-27 04:02, schrieb 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.
Somehow I see different math: If I adjust the query to show the last 30 
days I get 118 opened bugs.