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Living in the avalanche … or unexpected results of one bit
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:category: computer
:tags: bugTriage, Fedora
:date: 2010-11-08T10:32:00
While fighting with my bugs couple of months ago (around a F14 Beta,
IIRC), I got annoyed by number of bugs waiting on being eliminated in
EOS with unreplied needinfos. When going through them I discovered to my
unhappy surprise that many of these `automatically created bugs`_ don’t
have needinfo flag set, which made my life even worse. My defined
queries filter out bugs with needinfo flag set, because they are not my
concern.
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:alt: image of the avalanche
`Courtesy of DCSL on Flickr`_
So, I’ve hoped to `#fedora-bugzappers`_ to find out what was it that
those EOS warnings were not setting needinfo flag. I’ve found that
basically just nobody thought about that or something and I was promised
that this will be fixed for F12 EOS messages. I returned to my bugs and
completely forgot about whole thing.
With the release of F14, `the standard EOS message`_ was sent to
thousands of bugs at once. Then a strange thing happened: instead of few
dozen replies I was used to getting, an avalanche of messages started to
flow in. I had to see over hundred messages yesterday and people were
confirming bugs being fixed, or not, adding more interesting data and I
was completely swallowed by the avalanche of this small tidbits. I was
able to unearth some completely forgotten bugs, close tons of
duplicates, and revive some bugs which were looking like heading towards
sad fate of being EOSed.
Interesting how much one bit matters.
.. _`automatically created bugs`:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
.. _`Courtesy of DCSL on Flickr`:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcsl/3122395670/
.. _`#fedora-bugzappers`:
irc://freenode/fedora-bugzappers
.. _`the standard EOS message`:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542398#c16
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