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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2012-10-09 07:52 am
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Bug Pruning

It's been a while since we've gone through Bugzilla and "pruned" out bugs that are no longer relevant because:

-- a bug has been fixed-by-proxy, and no longer happens, because of another fix
-- the feature proposed has been superseded by another change
-- the bug is logged against an older browser and we no longer support that browser
-- we are no longer accepting bugs against an area of the site because the replacement is in beta (the old RTE, old journal-based javascript, the old version of talkread.bml, the old update page)
-- best practices have changed since the bug was logged
-- etc, etc.

Obviously Mark and I are the ones who have to catch the "our vision for the site has changed since the bug was logged and we no longer desire this feature" (and I will be going through and doing that list at some point) but I would like to crowdsource the rest of it a bit! If people have time this week, please take a few minutes and look over some of the open bugs, and drop a comment here if you see any that fit into one of those "could probably be closed" categories.

(Fun fact: Bug 1 was opened 2008-03-31 -- so, we've been collecting bugs for four and a half years or so! And that time we have RESOLVED 3693 bugs, and RESOLVED/FIXED 3237 bugs. Which is pretty kickass, if you ask me.)
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[staff profile] mark 2012-10-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
4.5 years... what is this I don't even.
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[personal profile] sophie 2012-11-30 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow.

Seriously, wow.
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[personal profile] foxfirefey 2012-11-30 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That is around 15% of my liiiiiife!
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[personal profile] momijizukamori 2012-10-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I only know the Styles Things, but two in that realm of things -
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3718
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3717

I know I've talked to both you and 90d in the past about 'should we keep these' but I realized something the last time I looked them over, which is that they're fixed width at a very very narrow width, and they use images for both the header and the background that we aren't going to be able to scale up :(

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2458 - this one I think has been fixed by proxy (hopefully someone else can confirm)

And then two that are RESOLVED/FIXED and just need to be marked as such:
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4671
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4626
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[personal profile] ghoti 2012-10-09 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there any way to tell if a bug's been addressed by another change? I'd like to help, but ... n00b.
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[personal profile] ghoti 2012-10-10 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
bah. maybe next time.