34423 - More than 2300 bugs with no milestone assigned to them

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[moshev]

Currently there are more than 2300 bugs in bugzilla that have no MileStone
assigned to them. I am afraid that this situation leads to incorrect milestone
planning. 
One possible solution would be to mass assign those bugs based on their
severity:
Critical & Blocker to current milestone (M15)
Major to next (M16)
Normal to M17
Below normal to M18

I believe this would lead to more sober view on number of issues opened 
for each Milestone.

Comment 1

[Terry Weissman]

[e-mail] is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai.  (For details,
see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools,
news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

Since this is specific to Mozilla's Bugzilla installation, re-assigning
to [e-mail].

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

This is actually specific to the browser project, I think, and I am not really
the steward of those bugs.  This should probably go to [e-mail], but I
think she's on sabbatical.  So my best guess is that gramps would be a good
person to decide what to do with this.

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

There are 366 non-tracking bugs ASSIGNED with no milestone in Moz.  Someone
should probably scan these, especially the older ones.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=ASSIGNED&product=Architecture&product=Browser&product=Browser+Localizations&product=CCK&product=MailNews&product=NSS&product=PSM&target_milestone=---&short_desc=.*tracking+bug.*&short_desc_type=notregexp&keywords=meta&keywords_type=nowords&&order=bugs.bug_id

There are 413 open bugs in Moz assigned to [e-mail].  In an ideal
world these would probably be changed to the "Future" milestone.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=nobody%40mozilla.org&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&target_milestone=---

There are 258 non-ASSIGNED open non-tracking bugs with no milestone in Moz which
aren't enhancements, aren't assigned to [e-mail] and haven't been
touched in 30 days.  Of these, about 100 are UNCONFIRMED.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&resolution=---&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&product=Architecture&product=Browser&product=Browser+Localizations&product=CCK&product=MailNews&product=NSS&product=PSM&target_milestone=---&short_desc=.*RFE*&short_desc_type=notregexp&keywords=meta&keywords_type=nowords&field0-0-0=short_desc&type0-0-0=notsubstring&value0-0-0=tracking+bug&field0-1-0=%28to_days%28now%28%29%29+-+to_days%28bugs.delta_ts%29%29&type0-1-0=greaterthan&value0-1-0=30&field0-2-0=assigned_to&type0-2-0=notequals&value0-2-0=nobody%40mozilla.org

There's plenty of reasons for a lot of your 2300, but in my scans I definitely
saw some that look old.

I suspect this situation will improve now we have the Future milestone, as many
people were relucantant to resolve REMIND or LATER.

Comment 5

[verah (gone)]

Leger is the person who can say something intelligent about this, and she's 
back (and probably wishing that she *had* had a sabbatical). Gramps is currently 
going through his share of the bugs lacking milestone dates, and targeting them. 
I am assisting him. Therefore, I am reassigning this bug to leger, because I 
know that's what we'll do when we get to this one in the list. 

So that's one down.

Comment 6

[leger]

The only products that concern the Seamonkey projects are Browser, Browser 
Localizations, CCK, Derivatives, Documenation, MailNews, NSPR, NSS, PSM and 
Rhino.  When you query for these, there are 1710 New, Reopened, Assigned bugs, 
plus 85 Unconfirmed.

The focus recently has not been on milestone assignment, but the use of dogfood 
and nsbeta2 indications.  So, many eng mgrs not using milestone system again 
until after M17.

Also, I put together queries for all the eng mgrs for their bugs with no Target 
Milestone.  So, they are set once we ramp this up again.  That's about all I can 
do on this for now.

Comment 7

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I'm going to leave this unverified for the moment.

At the moment there are 1427 bugs that are ASSIGNED and untargetted (see my
query above).  Of these about 526 haven't been touched in over 30 days, and 261
in over 60.  Not sure whether we consider this acceptable, but it's certainly
interesting.

Is there any benefit if we sent out a periodic nag on untargetted bugs much like
we do with NEW bugs?

There are currently 247 bugs assigned to [e-mail] that don't have
milestones of Future.  While some might consider it unnecessary to fix, it might
help people in searching if we did so.

For the existing bugs, this would result in too much spam to fix, so we couldn't 
fix it until bug #26943 was implemented.  For future bugs, we should do
something about automatically turning on Future.  No bug # on that yet.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

In search of accurate queries....  (sorry for the spam)