[Development] Jira bug cleanup

[Konstantin Ritt]

Hi,

How about task assigned to wrong persons (i.e. inactive people, people who
are not a Nokia/Digia employee anymore, etc.)? Do we still have such ones?

Regards,
Konstantin

2014-09-16 12:35 GMT+04:00 Blasche Alexander <Alexander.Blasche at digia.com>:

> Hi,
>
> One of the topics discussed during the last Qt contributor summit was the
> cleanup of our bug database. If you are interested in the outcomes check
> out:
>
>
> https://qt-project.org/groups/qt-contributors-summit-2014/wiki/Expiring_Bugs
>
> Finally I got some time to take care of the results. My plan is to perform
> these expiries on Friday this week.
>
> The first step will be the closure of all bugs (and only bugs) in the
> "Need more info" state which have not seen any activity for the last year.
> An appropriate comment will be added to each Jira bug explaining the action
> and advising people how to react to it depending on their circumstances.
>
> The second step is the transition of Unassigned bugs to the "Need more
> info" state if they have not seen any update during the last year. A
> comment will go along with the transition.
>
> You can avoid this happening to "your" important bugs by means of touching
> them. Also, feel free to revert some transitions as you may see fit in your
> work area.
>
> Going forward I will repeat this in regular intervals (3 months) and
> reduce the "no update received" timeout to six and later three month in the
> case of of tasks in the "Need more info" state. This should result in a
> eventual setup whereby Unassiged/reported bugs expire after 12 months and
> "Need more info" bugs expire after 3 months.
>
> If there are major objections to the proposed target for this week please
> raise them now.
> --
> Alex
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