From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 12:35:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E48F16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:35:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBA743D48 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:35:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])j36CYSRk024154; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:34:29 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) j36CZEdh059878; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:35:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost)j36CZD4S059859; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:35:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:35:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Matteo Riondato , Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20050406123513.GA46477@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org> <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org> cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Feedback timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:35:26 -0000 On 2005-04-05 22:56, Matteo Riondato wrote: > While digging in the PR database to find some PRs I can help to solve, > I found many PRs still open even if they are really old, refer to old > and no longer supported -RELEASE or the submitter didn't reply to > feedback request. > > I'm wondering what should be done with them and if I should point them > out, replying to each one of them or if I can post a list of PRs that > I think can be closed. I have been running a weekly cron job on freefall for some years now, that finds problem reports in "feedback" state and tracks down their last time of modification. The output is available online at: http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/pr/feedback.txt Some times, I use it to find problem reports that may be interesting but seem to have been dropped for lack of time, or any other reason. A good way to handle these is to try to contact the original submitter and see if they are still having problems, if they have tried a more recent FreeBSD version (possibly solving the original problem), or if they no longer care about this because they moved on to work on other things. > The same apply for some "patched" PRs too. Patched PRs are a bit different, because being in a "patched" state means that they did get committed to HEAD. They should be treated with even more care, since getting them backported to non-CURRENT releases is often just a matter of tracking down and notifying the committer who did the original commit.