Actually a good portion of "End of Life" bugs are typically cleaned up on an automated process, last I checked. I believe there's an automatic script that runs for some of the packages by people on the Security team and other teams, but I do not know the extent of those that get covered.
>From observations, EOL release targeted bugs go to "Won't Fix", if they've >targeted it to the specific EOL release, and "Incomplete" if you're waiting on >confirmation of the bug existing in a later release than the EOL one. There >are a few special case bugs I watch in nginx, for example, where that second >criterion is matched. (I may be wrong, as this is just built from my observations on EOL-release bugs.) ------ Thomas *Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos, as they are likely to happen by accident.* > On Jul 19, 2014, at 12:17, Alberto Salvia Novella <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Looking at the list of confirmed bugs affecting Ubuntu and the same list > tagged with the current supported releases, we can see that around the 70% of > bugs in Launchpad are not tagged with those; what suggests that a big amount > of bugs are simply End Of Life. > > I believe we can just jump on reading these reports and save a huge amount of > time by just writing a bot that checks for tags in the report, and if the > report doesn't have any with a current supported release name do the > following: > > 1. Set the bug status to "Incomplete". > > 2. Print the following message: "If you are still experiencing this issue in > any currently supported release (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases), please > set the status back to its previous setting". > > What do you think? > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
