[Libreoffice] RFC Operation Spamzilla

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Bjoern Michaelsen schrieb:

> here is an urgent request for comments. We still have ~2400 bugs in state NEW

Hi Bjoern,

of course I see the problem, but I have absolutely no problem with that 
fact, because I use a query basing on my experience. You find it here:
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugTriage#Process>
The hit quote for bugs needing "maintenance" is neaby 100% vor me.

> So here is my proposal: I want to batch change all those old unconfirmed bugs
> (without the now obsolete CONFIRMED in whiteboard status) to state NEEDINFO.

If you want to do the bulk change, you should avoid to change hundreds 
of "Really NEW" old bugs to NEEDINFO.

I recommend only to modify bugs what are NEW and fulfill some additional 
criteria (no user with QA-Experience is involved), what leads to this query:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?type1-0-0=notsubstring&type0-1-0=nowordssubstr&list_id=27519&field0-1-0=commenter&field0-0-0=commenter&query_based_on=LibO_Unconfirmed_4&emailtype1=exact&chfieldto=2011-10-17&query_format=advanced&emailassigned_to1=1&chfield=%5BBug%20creation%5D&value0-2-0=jeffdchang%40gmail.com%20%20yfjiang%40novell.com&chfieldfrom=2010-10-01&value0-1-0=andre.schnabel%40gmx.net%20drew%40baseanswers.com%20%20%20maand%40gmx.de%20%20wope%40gmx.com%20%20baur.steven%40googlemail.com%20%20dmx404%40gmail.com&value1-0-0=CONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&field0-2-0=commenter&email1=libreoffice-bugs%40lists.freedesktop.org&type0-0-0=nowordssubstr&value0-0-0=LibreOffice%40bielefeldundbuss.de%20%20%20detective.conan.1412%40gmail.com%20%20iamtester8%40gmail.com%20jbf.faure%40orange.fr%20%20jr%40natural-computing.de%20%20fyvaao%40ya.ru%20%20vitriol_vitriol%40katamail.com%20%20gerard.fargeot%40orange.fr%20%20bugs%40eikota.de&type0-2-0=nowordssubstr&field1-0-0=status_whiteb

oard&product=LibreOffice>

I also added the query link under
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugTriage#Process> "And this Query 
only shows ..." because mail clients might break that long link.

It's intended that no developers are included because mostly they only 
contribute some useful information, but will not continue "maintenance" 
for those bugs.

And -  may be you will get some indignant comments because of Bugs 
30876, 31022, 31055, 33232  ;-)

Please involve libreoffice-qa at lists.freedesktop.org into such discussions!

Best regards

Rainer