Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:35:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Feedback timeout Message-ID: <20050406123513.GA46477@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504051735100.28601-100000@pancho> <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org> References: <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504051735100.28601-100000@pancho> <20050405205601.GE674@kaiser.sig11.org>
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On 2005-04-05 22:56, Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> wrote:
> While digging in the PR database to find some PRs I can help to solve,
> I found many PRs still open even if they are really old, refer to old
> and no longer supported -RELEASE or the submitter didn't reply to
> feedback request.
>
> I'm wondering what should be done with them and if I should point them
> out, replying to each one of them or if I can post a list of PRs that
> I think can be closed.
I have been running a weekly cron job on freefall for some years now,
that finds problem reports in "feedback" state and tracks down their
last time of modification. The output is available online at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/pr/feedback.txt
Some times, I use it to find problem reports that may be interesting but
seem to have been dropped for lack of time, or any other reason. A good
way to handle these is to try to contact the original submitter and see
if they are still having problems, if they have tried a more recent
FreeBSD version (possibly solving the original problem), or if they no
longer care about this because they moved on to work on other things.
> The same apply for some "patched" PRs too.
Patched PRs are a bit different, because being in a "patched" state
means that they did get committed to HEAD. They should be treated with
even more care, since getting them backported to non-CURRENT releases is
often just a matter of tracking down and notifying the committer who did
the original commit.
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