We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

[Thomas Ward]

Actually a good portion of "End of Life" bugs are typically cleaned up on an automated process, last I checked.  I believe there's an automatic script that runs for some of the packages by people on the Security team and other teams, but I do not know the extent of those that get covered.

From observations, EOL release targeted bugs go to "Won't Fix", if they've targeted it to the specific EOL release, and "Incomplete" if you're waiting on confirmation of the bug existing in  a later release than the EOL one.  There are a few special case bugs I watch in nginx, for example, where that second criterion is matched.

(I may be wrong, as this is just built from my observations on EOL-release bugs.)


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Thomas


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> On Jul 19, 2014, at 12:17, Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Looking at the list of confirmed bugs affecting Ubuntu and the same list tagged with the current supported releases, we can see that around the 70% of bugs in Launchpad are not tagged with those; what suggests that a big amount of bugs are simply End Of Life.
> 
> I believe we can just jump on reading these reports and save a huge amount of time by just writing a bot that checks for tags in the report, and if the report doesn't have any with a current supported release name do the following:
> 
> 1. Set the bug status to "Incomplete".
> 
> 2. Print the following message: "If you are still experiencing this issue in any currently supported release (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases), please set the status back to its previous setting".
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
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