Re: Introducing bugbot

[David Sterba]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 01:35:34PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 04:16:08PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> > I love everything about what you've done except I've got a minor feature
> > request for the kernel bugzilla and this new workflow specifically.
> 
> Great to hear.
> 
> > Let's have a bot which polls open bug reports every 3-6 months with this
> > question:
> > 
> > "Is this still an issue in the current kernel? Please leave a comment or
> > this bug report will be closed due to inactivity".
> 
> I plan to do it slightly differently -- there will be a "housekeeping" command
> running daily that will auto-close bugs that haven't seen any activity for a
> defined period (90 days, for example), with a message like:
> 
> "This bug is now closed due to inactivity. Please reopen if this issue is
> still relevant with the latest kernel version."

Will there be a way to opt out of this? I'd rather see any bug closed
after an inspection from a human, I find the auto-close messages a bit
rude and I've read similar sentiment from others. The upstream bugzilla
is a best-effort level of support so it's true that bugs are left open
for months, sometimes years unfortunately, but I've seen many cases where
the report is valid or the "fix" is to improve documentation.

If we had enough people routinely going through the reports then some
sort of reminders would make sense but we don't. I take the bug
reports a task pool if there aren't more pressing things to do, which
may not be the same way how others use bugzilla.k.org so I'd be fine
with opting out of the auto-close or maybe out of any bugbot
interactions.