Some bugzilla work and thoughts

[Amit Kumar]

Dear Andrew,

So do you have plan to reduce/work/close(RFE maybe Not even in pipeline)
on bugzillas to lower their numbers.
What i find is It's even tough to search and start working, Since quite
are in NEW state while patches are attached to them!!

Thanks
Amit

On 06/12/2019 03:35 AM, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> G'Day,
>
> So some of you may have noticed I did a bugzilla spree today.
>
> We have a problem.  There are 2400 or so open bugs across the Samba
> products, and I managed to touch about 64 of them today in a meaningful
> way, not just automated closing. 
>
> The challenge is that while there are so many open bugs it is hard to
> find where to start or feel like one in making progress, a bit like the
> multiple pages of GitHub merge requests that built up before we
> migrated away.
>
> On an interesting note, while closing out up to 10 year old bugs may
> seem pointless, I've found about 1/3 were still relevant in some way!
>
> Dealing with just 2.5% of the bugs probably not the best way to spend
> almost an entire day, but I was inspired because I got some honest
> feedback recently that the sheer backlog discouraged the filing of new
> bugs, because any new bug would just be a drop in the bucket. 
>
> Of course I emphasised that we deal with new bugs with much more focus
> than the backlog, but the point still stung a little. 
>
> Many of our bugs are there because it is practice to file one 'in case
> a backport is wanted' that never comes.  Because we have no link
> between git, gitlab and bugzilla many never get even a tag as being
> merged into master, except by manual intervention. 
>
> Coupled with the fact that the patches themselves need to got to GitLab
> (or in the past the mailing list) for merging is also a challenge, as
> patch development doesn't happen here either. 
>
> I offer no solutions, not even my normal engineering ones, just my
> observations. 
>
> Andrew Bartlett