Re: [platform-swt-dev] Thought: Followup / Due date in Bugzilla

["Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Leo

Having a date will not make it that
easier and as your examples show, there might be more than one interesting
date per bug ;-).

I think it's easier to either use the
Whiteboard field or tags. While tags are personal, you can share queries
that use your personal tags with others.

HTH
Dani



From:      
 Leo Ufimtsev <lufimtse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 29.11.2016 20:44
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-swt-dev]
Thought: Followup / Due date in Bugzilla
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   platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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@ Daniel, 

Thank you for your reply.

This is not specifically about Gerrit patches. 
It's about managing bugs in Bugzilla. Gerrits are one situation where this
is the case, but not all cases involve gerrit.

Ex:
- We want to postpone work on a bug till a code-freeze is over in XYZ days. 
->> This may be a bug without a gerrit review.
- We want to followup on a related bug or a child bug of the current bug,
to see if it can be accelerated. ->>> No gerrit review has to
be involved in such situations.

Thank you for your time.

Leo



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Leo Ufimtsev
Software Engineer, Eclipse team.
Toronto, Canada

Red Hat, Inc.
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The change is on Gerrit I assume? Why
bother bugzilla?

Dani



From:        Leo
Ufimtsev <lufimtse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:        "Eclipse
Platform SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        29.11.2016
19:25
Subject:        Re:
[platform-swt-dev] Thought: Followup / Due date in Bugzilla
Sent by:        platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hello Dani, 

I just bumped into another situation where "followup" is needed.

I submitted a patch for review and I'd like to followup on the patch being
merged. If it's not reviewed (ex the reviewer is on holiday), then I could
request another contributor to review the patch.
In such case the 'needinfo' keyword doesn't quite work.

Does anyone have any suggestion for such a situation? (I couldn't find
a suitable keyword).

Thank you

Leo






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Leo Ufimtsev
Software Engineer, Eclipse team.
Toronto, Canada

Red Hat, Inc.
Leonidas@xxxxxxxxxx|
http://DeveloperBlog.RedHat.com/



On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Leo

Whenever we ask a question we add the 'needinfo' keyword. We can then query
for bugs with that keyword and close those who didn't change for a while.

There's also service running that pings on our bugs every year and adds
"stalebug" to the Whiteboard field.

Dani



From:        Leo
Ufimtsev <lufimtse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:        "Eclipse
Platform SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        28.11.2016
21:14
Subject:        [platform-swt-dev]
Thought: Followup / Due date in Bugzilla
Sent by:        platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hello fellow SWT developers,

I'm just playing around with a thought (before submitting a bug ticket..)
and would like to hear your thoughts.

In our bugzilla instance, there is no way (afaik) to schedule a followup
on a bug *via the web-interface*.

Use case: When user submits a bug and we ask a user a question, if there
is no reply within 2 weeks, I would like to close the ticket.

I know Mylyn can do this, but when some other developer asks a question
to some user, we do not see their private Mylyn data and some bug tickets
get forgotten in time. Also, although I like to use Mylyn, not everyone
uses it.


One solution to this:

In the Red Hat bugzilla, there is a 'Deadline' date field:


And with Bugzilla query, you can query relative dates. 
So for example to find tasks that are past their deadline:

See: http://docs.devzing.com/bugzilla-searching-with-relative-dates/

My suggestion is that we request our Bugzilla admins to add a "Followup/Due"
date datetime field. (or just "Followup" datetime field).

Thoughts?

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Leo Ufimtsev
Software Engineer, Eclipse team.
Toronto, Canada

Red Hat, Inc.
Leonidas@xxxxxxxxxx|
http://DeveloperBlog.RedHat.com/

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