[Scons-dev] bug prune

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Sat Aug 31 17:39:06 EDT 2019


Dirk,

If you can create a HTML dump, I can put it up on the scons.org webserver
and link to it.
And then maybe we create a repo to check in all the source files with
scripts to regen?

-Bill

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 5:09 AM Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this approach sounds good to me too. I just wanted to mention that I have
> all the old Tigris Issues (and user and developer mails)
> archived on my local machine. They're stored in a simple text-ish format
> that can be read into corresponding Python classes.
> My plan is still to write a small "viewer" app, that would enable
> interested developers/users to "browse" through the "SCons
> archives". In my view there is a lot of hidden knowledge in there, that we
> can't really use at the moment.
>
> I'll try to check whether my "archive" is still up-to-date during the next
> days. ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
> On 27.08.19 15:53, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> > I think this would be great. I'll help review the bugs-to-be-closed.
> >
> > -- Gary
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:50 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us <mailto:
> mats at wichmann.us>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Just to pull some thoughts together:
> >
> >     there are currently 679 open scons issues on github.
> >
> >     That number drops to 92 if you select only ones which have had a
> >     modification since the big migration from tigris. Try this query:
> >
> >     is:issue is:open updated:>=2018-02-10
> >
> >     or as a link:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+updated%3A%3E%3D2018-02-10+
> >
> >     I'm a relative newcomer around here, but I don't see the value of
> >     showing a ton of historical bugs that aren't being worked on; the
> newly
> >     filed ones don't even get a lot of attention - there just isn't a big
> >     scons team at this point and numerically most current contributors
> have
> >     a specific motivation ("itch to scratch" as it were) rather than the
> >     ability to just generally work on bugs.  To provide more visible
> focus
> >     there's already been some discussion of a bug prune.
> >
> >     My suggestion is this:
> >
> >     (a) close all open tigris bugs with a message that includes these
> items:
> >
> >     * bug is now tracked on github [link]
> >     * bugs which have not had activity in 18 months are going to be
> closed
> >     (it doesn't have to be 18, but that was the cutover time)
> >     * we understand readers of this issue might not see messages from
> >     github, so if you want to keep this issue alive, make a comment - any
> >     comment - on the corresponding github issue.
> >
> >     (b) fire up a bot to mark inactive github issues with a tag, and
> >     configure suitably.  Looks like there's an app in the github
> marketplace
> >     that is free so setup is just a YAML file. Example setup here:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/commit/afd968dfa1ce1141456a207484d35f2766d5916b
> >
> >     the app:
> >
> >     https://github.com/marketplace/stale
> >
> >     (c) someone scan through the first-time closure proposal list and
> >     manually update any which seem deserving of continued life.
> >
> >
> >     Closed-as-stale issues don't vanish, they are still there to be
> browsed
> >     as needed...
> >
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> >
> > --
> > Gary
> >
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