[Swift-devel] unfixable bugs

[Michael Wilde]

A waiting time for these is OK by me, but that should only apply to 
bugs, not enhancements.

I'd like to see some of the "waiting for user input" bugs move to some 
kind of "needs test" status (eg bug 913 which you just updated).  Thats 
a good example of a stress test thats needed.

Also, instead of "automatically" closing these, maybe have a report that 
flags bugs whose waiting for user input time has expired?

But in general, I agree - moving such bugs out of our main tracking 
focus is a good idea.

- Mike

On 10/19/14 8:20 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are many bugs in our bugzilla, and there are some bugs that are in
> the unfortunate state of needing more information about the issue to
> determine what's happening or to reproduce it, but such information has
> not been provided for a while.
>
> I have, at some point, added the WAITING_FOR_USER_INPUT state to keep
> track of some of these bugs. However, that, in itself, does not
> guarantee progress on the issue. I'm proposing that we decide on an
> amount of time that we allow a bug to be in a waiting state before we
> automatically close it as expired.
>
> The reason why I would like to do this is because having fewer bugs in
> bugzilla makes it easier to prioritize bug fixing (and not losing track
> of important issues). A move like this would eliminate bugs that have a
> really low chance of otherwise ever getting closed, and therefore only
> contribute negatively by adding noise.
>
> So let me know what you think about that. In the mean time, if you do
> have some time, please take another look at bugs that are waiting on you
> and maybe give some feedback on whether an issue is still present or
> perhaps some information that would help:
>
> https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/buglist.cgi?bug_status=WAITING%20FOR%
> 20USER%20INPUT
>
> Mihael
>
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Michael Wilde
Mathematics and Computer Science          Computation Institute
Argonne National Laboratory               The University of Chicago