Reducing The Number Of Unconfirmed Firefox Bugs: Part 2

A month ago I finished reading all UNCONFIRMED bugs filed against FIREFOX that had last been modified in 2006. Out of the many 1000s of bugs I read, ~1418 were tagged with a CLOSEME on their whiteboard, in hope that they could be closed. After waiting 3 weeks after each bug was tagged in the hope that the reporter would close their bug (many of which did), I reread the remaining open bugs and triaged as many as possible. The combined results of the reporter closing their bug, and myself and other triagers closing bugs I had tagged, is that 1030 bugs were closed!

However, this means there are ~387 bugs that remain open that have been whiteboarded with one of CLOSEME 06/27, CLOSEME 07/05, CLOSEME 07/09 or CLOSEME 07/14 - and such bugs I do not know what to do with. The bar for closing bugs was quite high; the bug report had to be of no value what so ever or to be incomplete to the point that it was useless. The bugs that remain open are bugs that are filed against an OS I don’t use, are too technical for me, are badly written but someone with enough knowledge and time could tease some information out of, or are untestable by me.

So, the questions remains, what to do with these bugs? Perhaps, as Wayne Mery suggests, they could be made the focus of an upcoming testday. But if anyone is CC’d to a bug with such a CLOSEME tag on please feel free to re-evaluate the bug and close it if possible.

This work is very boring really (no, honestly!), but it is nice to clean bugzilla up so much. I will be starting on UNCONFIRMED FIREFOX bugs in 2007 now, on a month-by-month basis. But I’m not going to spend so much time and effort as I did for the 2006 bugs.

And so to finish, again, with a nice graph of what we have achieved - about 2,000 bugs closed in total. (And if Gerv fancies EXPIRING some bugs, there’s 237 UNCONFIRMED bugs tagged with CLOSEME that are filed against Firefox 1.5)