bugzilla cleanup

[denise]

it's been a while since we've done a bugzilla cleanup! someone mentioned that it's difficult to find bugs to work on, and i think the high number of open bugs has a lot to do with that, so i'm declaring spring cleaning on the bug list.

there are currently 14 public bugs that are CONFIRMED and assigned to someone other than nobody@dreamwidth.org. if you are the assignee for any of them, please either:

(a) set the status to IN_PROGRESS, indicating that you are still working on it or planning on working on it in the near future, or
(b) set the assignee back to nobody@dreamwidth.org so somebody else can pick it up!

there are also currently 199 public bugs IN_PROGRESS. please take a look and see if you have any bugs assigned to you with a status of IN_PROGRESS! if you do, and you aren't planning on working on them, please:

(1) set the status back to CONFIRMED, and
(2) set the assignee back to nobody@dreamwidth.org!

remember: there is absolutely no shame at all to deciding that you don't want to work on a particular bug anymore. (there are a few bugs i've picked up and dropped three or four times each!) it is perfectly okay to drop a bug that you aren't as interested in as you thought you were. it's not a failure in any way, and you may be doing another developer a favor when they decide the bug looks interesting!

we're going to be working on clearing out bugs that are no longer applicable, have been resolved-by-proxy, or have been open so long that we've changed our minds about needing them due to other things happening, but in the meantime, if you spot any of those, drop me a line so i can deal with 'em.

Comments

[kareila]

What about bugs that had patches rejected and you no longer remember what needed to be fixed? I have about half a dozen of those.

[denise]

heh. email me and fu? maybe one of us will remember!

[azurelunatic]

Fun fact: pick-up-and-drop is actually a time-honored chicken flock-bonding/courtship method. When a flock leader (usually a rooster or hen with chicks) discovers something delicious, they pick it up and drop it while making a distinctive repeated short clucking sound, like buk-buk-buk-buk-buk. The rest of the flock comes running over to see what that's all about. (Bukking with your beak full is considered poor form if it results in no treat left when everyone else shows up. It's also poor form to pick-up-and-drop a stick in the hopes that your hens will come over.)

[foxfirefey]

Something to note, for this bug:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1867

It was completed and pulled in GitHub, but not closed. Do we have good procedures running about that right now?

[denise]

sometimes the github-to-bugzilla hook doesn't fire if someone mistypes the bug #, or if bugzilla is temporarily unavailable at the time the pull req is closed. if it happens to one of your bugs, just close it resolved/fixed and leave a link to the pull req!

[foxfirefey]

oh dear, I think I got confused with previous commits on the subject! no such funkiness is apparent!