Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 10:11, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 11:58:28AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 09:01, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I agree with Daniel. Please let's not clog the new bug tracker right from
> > > the start with hundreds of bugs - that only makes it harder to focus on 
> > > the
> > > tickets that are really important. Let's use the migration instead to 
> > > start
> > > as clean as possible again.
> >
> > I really don't like doing this kind of thing. It basically
> > tells bug reporters "we don't care about your reports".
> > We ought to at least triage them. Certainly for arm a
> > lot of the reports in LP are real bug reports which we
> > shouldn't just drop on the floor.
>
> Mostly it is just a reflection of the reality we find ourselves in where
> we have more bug reports than we have willing maintainer time to investigate
> and resolve. Regardless of whether the bug are open or closed, there are a
> large number we clearly don't consider important, otherwise someone would
> have already looked at them.

Yeah, I agree with this. But there's a corollary: unless we
somehow find more maintainer time in future to investigate
bug reports, the new gitlab bug tracker is just going to quickly
fill up with more unresolved bug reports, so why worry about
whether it's empty at the start or not ?

thanks
-- PMM