Bugzilla/Cleanup

There are quite a few big cleanup jobs that our Bugzilla database could do with, but they're sure to result in a huge volume of bugmail spam, to wikibugs-l, individual users and to the IRC channels. The best way to proceed is to set aside a window when email from the bugzilla installation will be disabled, and we can make large changes without generating a huge volume of mail.

Changes that need to be made:

• Remove deprecated keywords
  • fixed-in-14-cvs
  • fixed-in-15-cvs
  • fixed-in-cvs
  • bugday - didn't do.

• Remove keywords from closed bugs

  Is that necessary? ^demon

  Of course not; none of this is essential. Doesn't mean it's not beneficial. Happy‑melon 14:48, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

  I suppose some of them (needs-parsertest, needs-review) could be removed post-closure, as they're no longer relevant. Things like patch are still relevant, because there is still a patch attached to the bug (it's just been applied already :p) ^demon 13:40, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

  What about a new keyword for those, for example "reviewed-patch" or the likes, that would make it easier looking for patches that need to be checked out/reviewed or something? Peachey88 03:01, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

• Cleanup some keywords

  easy can apparently do with a cleanout, since they aren't all "easy". Peachey88 00:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

• Consolidate MW version numbers - 1.4.x → 1.4, etc, up to 1.10 (except 1.6.x??)

  Will cause the most spam ← This is why we're shutting down BZ for the duration. ^demon

  Done ^demon 16:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

• Cleanout some products and components with many misplaced bugs:
  • wikibugs IRC bot

  This was caused by the component was simply called "wikibugs" compared to he current naming of something like "Wikibugs IRC bot", I created a list when i started previously but never finished. Peachey88 05:17, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

• Deprecate some components and products
  • Issues?

    Needs to die. ^demon

    Dead. ^demon

  • Wiktionary tools?

    I keep getting told this is looked at. But nothing ever gets fixed. Someone needs to step up or we should shut it down. ^demon

• Reorganise some products/components
  • Logwood → Wikimedia/Usage Statistics?