[RFC] Disable bug reporting till Bugzilla situation is improved

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Ooops, I have no idea how I got that number. I should not do maths at 4am.

With an average of 5.2 reports a day (that part seems correct) we
would save us getting 156 reports.