[Mageia-bugsquad] Change the version of cauldron bugs ?

[Marja van Waes]

On 26/04/12 22:14, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 avril 2012 20:19:15, Manuel Hiebel a écrit :
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I was thinking, what about change the version of "cauldron" bugs to 2
>> after the release ?
>>
>> Of course we can add some exceptions like:
>> - the enhancement severity
>> - the low priority
>> - the Installer and Release media component
>>
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=version:cauldron+-sev:enh+-
>> prio:low+-comp:install+-comp:release
>>
>> So this is for now 575 bugs, and I guess it will be less than that we I
>> plan do to that.
>> (the list still needs some cleaning)
>>
>> Then we can also add a comment, that this is an automatic change and if
>> it was done wrong, we ask people to revert the change.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>>
>> (We could also make something like that for the End of life support of
>> Mageia 1 in 8-9 months)
>
> Any bug reported against cauldron should be either still valid in Mageia 2 and
> therefore fixed by updates, or not valid anymore, so I quite agree. I see
> exceptions, for example bugs in the installer or LiveCDs, unless we release
> updated ISOs for Mageia 2 in a few months. The main problem is that we lose
> information about the bug's validity in cauldron.

Another main problem is we don't know whether they're still valid or 
not. We don't ask reporters every month whether the issue is still 
there. We ping bugs after 3 months, if nothing happened to the report, 
but if I don't have time to check whether there is a possibility the bug 
got fixed, I usually don't ask whether it is still valid.

For me it would be confusing if all cauldron bugs were set to be Mageia 
2 stable bugs (too), because when I see that I expect that at least one 
person reported the bug was valid for mageia 2 stable.

Of course, for bugs that were filed recently, that will often be the 
case, but many cauldron bugs were not filed that recently, some date 
from before mageia 1 release, many from 2 alpha.


> Last time we discussed it on
> this mailing list, IIRC the conclusion was that we needed to be able to set
> several releases for the same bug and that a bugzilla update would allow it.
> Another option would be duplicate every bug for Mageia 2, and link it to the
> cauldron bug (I guess it's quite safe to decide that the Mageia 2 bug must be
> blocked by the cauldron bug). It would be my preferred way in fact.


I agree, if their validity is checked first.

I'd like to see that the moment 2 stable is released, all cauldron bugs 
are pinged and all reporters/commenters are asked to clone the bug for 
Mageia 2 if it is valid for stable, and set it to depend on the original 
bug. If it isn't valid for stable, it most probably can't be valid for 
cauldron anymore, so it would be safe to close them as old.

I think we'll end up closing a lot of cauldron bugs :)
>
> But I think this must be discussed with other packagers too.
>
> Also, it would be good to have a report about open bugs in cauldron, per
> component or package or group of packages, in a synthetic view, so that we can
> have an idea of the quality of the distribution that is to be released (and a
> report about Mageia 1 too to see how much bugs we fixed, how much we didn't
> fix, what components have the biggest amount of open bugs, still in a
> synthetic view... I know, I ask for a lot, and maybe in a few years I will do
> it myself :))


Can you point me to an example of a report in a synthetic view?


>
> Best regards
>
> Samuel Verschelde
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