Things discussed on 2009-08-03

Date

2009-08-03, 18h UTC

Participants

torkiano, mkanat, lakhil, andre, lajjr, hggdh, DrBob, fizz, muelli, fabio, Susana

"Old untouched bugs"

* What are they? Bugs reported without _any_ change for more than:

  • 6 months
  • 1 year
  • 2 years

* How to close them:

DISCUSSED

Bugs with 1 year without any activity (not enhacement bugs) -> set NEEDINFO state -> 6 weeks without response -> close as INCOMPLETE

ACTIONS

Status

AndreKlapper will do a new stock response for this case. He will warn the reporter that he has 6 weeks to respond before the bug being closed

In progess

NEEDINFO bugs: how long before closing it as INCOMPLETE:

  • 6 weeks

  • 3 months
  • 6 months

Use of the NEW status

  • NEW = TRIAGED
  • NEW = CONFIRMED

DISCUSSED

no changes

Should we use NOTABUG resolution

(How to deal with suggestions request) (See what Ubuntu does here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#An idea to improve Ubuntu)

DISCUSSED

no changes

Discuss the severity and priority fields

kill priority field? (a bit confusing for novices, is really useful?)

DISCUSSED

no changes

Kill VERIFIED and CLOSED status

DISCUSSED

no changes

ACTIONS

Status

AndreKlapper and JavierJardon will update stock responses to ask reporters to verify the fix after it has landed in distribution

In progess

What to do with bugs about deprecated modules?

DISCUSSED

1)

Talk to maintainer first and get agreement (CC bugsquad list)

2)

Add a warning comment that module is now deprecated and to please check against potential new module and set status to NEEDINFO

3)

Otherwise close 6 weeks later if untouched, set flag obsolete-module-2009 or something else

ACTIONS

Status

SusanaPereira contact debian-gnome

TODO

SusanaPereira upgrade list of deprecated modules in bugzilla

TODO

JavierJardon make a table with deprecated modules and his maintainers. See Bugsquad/DeprecatedModules and ThomasAndersen/CvsCleanup

In progress

AndreKlapper make a "stock email" to contact maintainers

In progess

Logs

August 3rd, 2009

bugsquad-meeting-log-2009-08-03.txt (raw/unedited)

Bugsquad/Meetings/20090803 (last edited 2009-09-02 03:22:16 by TobiasMueller)