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Whoops
This process fell between the cracks and didn't happen until well after Fedora 15 was end-of-lifed. We'll have to do better for Fedora 18.

This page describes Bugzilla House Keeping tasks that need to be completed during Fedora 17. They are listed in chronological order.

Overall Status

Task Owner State Date Ticket #
Rawhide Rebase Warning to Package Maintainers
Bugzilla Product Description--Branch Day
Rawhide Rebase
Bugzilla Product Description--Release Day
Fedora 14 EOL Warning
Fedora 14 EOL Closure spot COMPLETE 2012-08-15
Bugzilla Product Description--Fedora 14 EOL

Rawhide Rebase Warning to Package Maintainers


Greetings,

I hope everyone is well.  This e-mail is intended to inform you about the upcoming
bugzilla changes happening around August 6, 2012 (Rawhide bug rebase) and what you
need to do, if anything.

We will be automatically changing the version for most rawhide bugs to Fedora 14.
This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 14
development cycle being changed to version ‘15' instead of their
current assignment, ‘rawhide’.   This is to align with the branching of 
Fedora 15 from rawhide and to more accurately tell where in the lineage of 
releases the bug was last reported.

Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are open for the ‘Package Review’ 
component or bugs that have the ''FutureFeature'' or ''Tracking'' keywords set.
They will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely.

If you do not want your bugs changed to version ‘15‘, add the FutureFeature keyword.
If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we’d be glad to help.
Stop by #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net and we’ll gladly help you.

More about these processes is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

(sender's name)
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Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
  • Where: Send to fedora-devel-announce@redhat.com
  • When: Two weeks before Fedora 17 Branching: date here
  • Status: Completed on date here

Bugzilla Product Description--Branch Day


Bugs related to the components of the Fedora distribution. If you are reporting a bug 
against a stable release or a branched pre-release version please select that 
version number. The currently maintained released versions are: Fedora 15, Fedora 16. 
The branched pre-released version is Fedora 17. If you have a bug to report against 
the daily development tree (rawhide) please choose 'rawhide' as the version.
  • Change on Fedora 17 Branch Day: insert date here

Rawhide Rebase

Bug Selection Criteria

All must be met

  1. version == rawhide
  2. component != "Package Review"
  3. opened against rawhide before 2010-07-28 (Rawhide Branching date is 2010-07-27)
  4. Not blocking a specified blocker bug:
    1. Fedora 17 Blocker -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752650
  5. keyword FutureFeature is not present
  6. keyword Tracking is not present
  7. the string RFE is not present in the summary
  8. status != CLOSED

Mass Change Specification

  • Date to run: insert date here
  • Query to select bugs: http://bit.ly/bj1aHk
    • Double-check this carefully to make sure the results it returns agree with the query criteria
  • User making changes & comments: triage@lists.fedoraproject.org
  • Suppress Bugzilla email notifications -- no email should be sent
  • Actions to take on all bugs selected in query above:
    1. Change 'version' to: '17'
    2. Add comment below

Comment Text

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 17 development cycle.
Changing version to '17'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Bugzilla Product Description--Release Day


Bugs related to the components of the Fedora distribution. If you are reporting a 
bug against a stable release please select that version number. The currently 
maintained released versions are: Fedora 15, Fedora 16, and Fedora 17. If you 
have a bug to report against the daily development tree (rawhide) or a version
 of Fedora in testing, please choose 'rawhide' as the version.
  • Change on release day: (insert date here)

Fedora 15 EOL Warning

Bug Selection Criteria

All must be met:

  1. version == Fedora 15
  2. status != CLOSED

Mass Change Specification

  • Date to run: Insert date here)(30 days before end of life)--typically the day after GA date for Fedora 17 which is date here)
  • Query to select bugs: http://bit.ly/dzD9jz
  • User making changes & comments: triage@lists.fedoraproject.org
  • Send one email notification
  • Actions to take on all bugs selected in query above:
    1. Add comment
    2. Set bug to NEEDINFO Reporter

Comment Text

This message is a reminder that Fedora 15 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time
this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
'version' of '15'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 15's end of life.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 15 is end of life.  If you 
would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on 
"Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

The process we are following is described here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Fedora 15 EOL Closure

Bug Selection Criteria

All must be met:

  1. version == Fedora 15
  2. status != CLOSED

Mass Change Specification

  • Date to run: (insert date here) (one day after official EOL)
  • Query to select bugs: bit.ly/Qyf0RA
  • User making changes & comments: triage@lists.fedoraproject.org
  • Send one email notification
  • Actions to take on all bugs selected in query above:
    1. Add comment
    2. Change status to CLOSED:WONTFIX

Comment Text

Since we didn't preannounce things in the Fedora 17 cycle, we used this comment: 

This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora 
has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is 
Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

(Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this 
occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.)

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen 
this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you 
would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on 
"Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that 
version of Fedora.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events.  Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

The process we are following is described here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

If we had announced properly, we'd have used this message instead: 

Fedora 15 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''(date here)''. Fedora 15 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this 
page) and open it against that version of Fedora.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Bugzilla Product Description--Fedora 15 EOL


Bugs related to the components of the Fedora distribution. If you are 
reporting a bug against a stable release or a branched pre-release version 
please select that version number. The currently maintained released 
versions are: Fedora 16 and Fedora 17. If you have a bug to report against 
the daily development tree (rawhide) please choose 'rawhide' as the version.
  • Change on day of EOL:
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