old bugs

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> One thing we all agree is that we want to keep bugzilla in a manageable
> situation to avoid the plasma1 thousand bug tsunami.
>
> So, how to do this.. so far so good, we have 42 bugs at the moment, closed
> a
> ton, but now that beta is out (and even worse when the final will come out)
> there will be a significant number of reports
>
> I am already picking some sign of the situation repeating in the form of
> one
> thing: old bugs of dubious reproducibility that just stay there rotting
> away.
> I do not want this to repeat, even if this means closing old stuff that
> still
> happens for somebody in very rare conditions, but if is rare, old and
> there is
> not a clear way to reproduce, i propose to just close
>
> things like
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331956
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332520
> (and many others)
>
> are just not helping in being there at all.
>
> Opinions? Comments?
>
> --
> Marco Martin
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On the other hand, it's bad not to keep track of bugs because we don't have
a button to reproduce them.

I would suggest a ping to the bug and if the reporters can't reproduce,
then close.

For example, the taskbar bug is daily life in Plasma Next.

Aleix
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