Help offer: bug triage

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:15:15PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> So I suggest the following triage goals:
> 
> 1. Reassigning all the old mozilla bugs to the new names
> (ice{weasel,dove,ape}).
> 2. Ping submitters and confirm bugs still exists in recent versions.
> 3. Close open bugs which are not confirmed and the submitter isn't
> responsive (3 ping in 6 weeks time).

I would suggest a more aggressive approach:

 ping once ... wait 2 weeks, if no reply, close and point reporter to
 instructions on how to reopen .

> 
> Other suggestions? Is this OK with you?
> 


> Some issues to consider:
> Iceape - I would prefer to wait for version 1.1.4 to enter testing. I
> don't see any reason to ping people while the stable version is higher
> than the testing one.
> 
> Icedove - As version 2.0.0 is only available in unstable, and not in
> testing, I'll try anyway to confirm the bugs with the submitters, but I
> guess it will lead to limited results.

if you want, i can provide 2.0 builds for testing from my
people.debian.org account. I can do the same for iceape ... just let
me know.

 - Alexander
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