Accidental Fedora Bug Closures
canopic jug writes:
Fedora developer and Program manager, Ben Cotton, opens up about what happened when he fat-fingered a script to automatically close bugs as Fedora 29 reached End-Of-Life the other day. When version 29 reached EOL, he accidentally also closed several thousand other bugs which should have remained open. He writes about how that happened.
Simply put: I messed up. When I created the CSV file, I neglected to specify the version in the Bugzilla search. As a result, I had a CSV file with 20,000 bugs. I started the script and it processed approximately 150 bugs before the community noticed that bugs were being closed inappropriately.
Earlier on SN:
Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop (2019)
Fedora 26 Released (2017)
Fedora 25 Released (2016)
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