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Re: [platform-ui-dev] bug moving begins in earnest....
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I agree with Daniel. We should not mark them blindly as
works-for-me/invalid. Many bugs do have clear steps to reproduce or
enhancement requests that will be useful for some. We should be having
a look at them before closing. Most of the cases as John said, are
either invalid or works now.
How about the one who does the triage, every day looks at the 5 or 10
old bugs (probably starting from the smaller bug#) and quickly analyze
and close/comment it appropriately? It should not take more than an
hour of his time every day, but in the end of the cycle, we should
have cleared most of the bugs, if they are really invalid/fixed in the
course of time.
- Prakash
“People are meant to be loved and things are meant to be used.
But unfortunately, people are being used and things are being loved”
2009/7/10 Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>my hope was that by reducing the bug count it would make it easier to sort
> the valid ones from the stale/invalid ones.
> >From my experience most of those bugs though not touched even for years are
> still valid bugs and closing them as either WORKSFORME or INVALID is just
> wrong i.e. in most cases it's just a lie to ourselves to get the bug count
> down or to comfort ourselves. If at all we close them, they should get
> marked as WONTFIX.
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> Dani
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> It's unfortunate when some good quality bugs slip through, but a large
> number of bugs don't have your high quality. Many of these really old bugs
> were never reproducible, had incomplete details, or are
> enhancements/changes that the committer doesn't really agree with but
> leaves the bug open because that's easier than carrying on a debate in the
> bug report. Of course going through each bug by hand would be ideal, but
> for individual committers that own over 1,000 open bugs it's not going to
> happen. I'm not sure that leaving bugs untouched forever is any less
> offensive to the bug originator than closing and asking for verification
> that it's still relevant. Right now there are many real bugs going
> unnoticed because they are hard to find in the big pile of open bugs - my
> hope was that by reducing the bug count it would make it easier to sort the
> valid ones from the stale/invalid ones.
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> Daniel Megert
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>>The other technique I have used in other components is to just close all
> bugs not touched in 3-4 years,
> You can believe me that I know how much time is needed to maintain the
> inbox but as a bug reporter who takes the time to file a bug report with
> detailed steps I find it very offensive if you close my bug without trying
> the steps I provided. Whenever this happens to me my only reaction is to
> immediately reopen the bug pointing to the steps I provided (because in 90%
> of the cases the steps sill hold).
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>>The reasoning here is that really important bugs wouldn't stay
> untouched/uncommented for such a long time
> A bug is a bug. Just because we don't care doesn't mean it's gone ;-)
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> Dani
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> This bugzilla move kicked the dust off some really old bugs I had either
> reported or was on the CC list of. From a quick glance through them, I was
> able to close about a dozen as WORKSFORME/INVALID/etc. This made me wonder
> if there is some way we can incrementally reduce the large backlog of bugs
> that are still open but are really no longer valid. In the long term this
> would make it easier to manage the set of bugs remaining open. I wonder if
> Susan's idea below of going through a block of bugs while on triage duty
> would be one way to accomplish this. I.e., the person on triage would look
> through the newest bugs, but also look through some of the very oldest bugs
> to see if they can be closed out. The other technique I have used in other
> components is to just close all bugs not touched in 3-4 years, and ask the
> reporter to reopen if it's still a problem. The reasoning here is that
> really important bugs wouldn't stay untouched/uncommented for such a long
> time, and the reporter can always reopen if they still care. On average
> this seems to cause about a 1% reopen rate on closed bugs, which really
> helps clean up the inbox.
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> Susan Franklin McCourt
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> Hi, everyone.
> Today while I was triaging the inbox, I decided to update the bugs in the
> components that I own to use the new triage process [1]. Boris noticed the
> noise and asked me if I would try to reassign the bugs belonging to former
> team members using the new guidelines.
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> I went through each component and reassigned any bugs belonging to former
> team members (Karice, Tod, Kim) to platform-ui-triaged, and updated the QA
> contact to whomever is listed in the component areas list.
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> I *did not* update bugs that had owners who are still around, even if it
> seemed that the bugs were assigned to the wrong person. I also did not
> attempt to update everyone's assigned bugs to use the new process.
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> There are still bugs assigned to Tod and Kim that did not show up in the
> component searches (mistyped component areas, etc.). Since these require
> visiting each bug, it's going to take longer to reassign them. But I'll be
> doing a few each day as part of my time spent on triage.
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> It can be daunting to say the least to look at a list of all the bugs you
> own to determine if they should really belong to you.
> Instead, I suggest everyone take a look at the components they own in the
> component areas list [2]. Viewing your bugs by component will make it easy
> for you to spot if something is assigned incorrectly.
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> susan
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> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
> [2]http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ui/componentAreas.php
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