#8919 When releng unorphans (or unretires) packages, it should reassign bugzillas (or ask the packagers)
Closed: Fixed 5 years ago by churchyard. Opened 5 years ago by churchyard.

  • Describe the issue

See for example https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1738174 - scribus was orphaned becasue of this bugzilla. But later it was unorphaned in https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8829 - yet the bugzilla reamined asigned to the orphan.

When a releng person assigns a package, the same person should check that all bugzillas are properly assigned to the new maintainer. Either by doing it, or by asking the new maintainer to do it and only close the ticket once it is done.

  • When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)

Sooner the better, as always.

  • When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)

When there is an automation, like it once was, that says "The component changed owner" and reassigns the bugzilla automagically.

  • If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?

Neglected packages get orphaned, later unorphaned, but they remain neglected, because the new maintainers are not aware of the bugzillas.


I am not sure what kind of permissions one needs to reassign the bugs. We should make this part os the SOP document.

We should fix script which is (re-)assigning bugs to the PoC of a package instead.

I am not sure what kind of permissions one needs to reassign the bugs.

AFAIK There are no extra permissions needed.

Metadata Update from @humaton:
- Issue assigned to humaton

5 years ago

Please, @mohanboddu when you reassign packages, ask the maintainers to take the bugzillas. We cannot just hand over a package that is full of CVEs to a person without them even realizing it.

@pingou Isn't our bugzilla sync script reassigning things? Or no?

I think it does now, yes.

Metadata Update from @churchyard:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

5 years ago

@pingou Isn't our bugzilla sync script reassigning things?

It does now yes.

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