From owner-freebsd-bugbusters Wed Feb 12 6:36:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3468137B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 06:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618C643FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 06:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a071.otenet.gr [212.205.215.71]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1CEaV4A000695; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:36:40 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1CEaSNQ001911; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:36:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1CEaHdi001910; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:36:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:36:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Terry Lambert Cc: bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bugzilla? (was Re: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-) Message-ID: <20030212143617.GA1639@gothmog.gr> References: <20030209185618.GA19962@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030209151407.N548@localhost> <2e1y2e7jtu.y2e@localhost.localdomain> <20030211190614.GA2153@gothmog.gr> <3E49BA78.9B24BB22@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E49BA78.9B24BB22@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-11 19:07, Terry Lambert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Interesting stuff. I've been toying around with the idea of an > > automated ``close and send a gentle reply to the originator'' script > > for feedback PRs that are more than 3-4 months old and no activity has > > appeared in the audit trail since the last transition to feedback. > > If 3-4 months seems too short, we can change it to 1 year or more. > > What is the intent of timing out bug reports? What is the perceived > need? If it's just to apply a filter so you can not see them, you > can do that by constraining the search filter to ignore PR's older > than some date, without having to remove them from the database. I don't want PRs to automatically close after a while. Having old PRs around is good too. The whole idea of PRs becoming 'suspended' and then closed reminded me of what is now done with feedback timeouts. That's all :) > Old PR's are, to my mind, the most valuable of all PR's, in terms > of attracting talent to the project: persistant breakage is often > the most annoying. Good point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugbusters" in the body of the message