We could automatically clean End Of Life bugs

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Daniel Letzeisen wrote:
> On 07/19/2014 12:54 PM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:
> 
> >EOL bugs can still be present in active releases... So just closing these bugs
> >without checking if it is still present, is wasting the efforts of the
> >reporters ... and does not show much respect
> >toward these reporters (in my opinion).
> >
> 
> Yes, they can still be present, but unless the reporter confirms
> that it is still present in a supported release, the bug should
> automatically go to Incomplete if it is tagged with EOL release(s).
> I do not agree that it is disrespectful, since marking it Incomplete
> gives the user two months to confirm that they still experience it
> with a supported version. In fact, I think users find it more
> disrespectful when their report stays open for years without
> response and basically goes into a state of limbo.
> 
> Oh, and I also find it odd that apport allows users to file bugs
> with EOL releases..

That's bug 834895 and should be relatively easy to fix, although we
can't SRU it to Saucy because it is already End of Life! However, it
would be a good target for fixing in Utopic and I'm happy to help
someone work on this.

--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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