Bug#264774: Not sure if this is still interesting.
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Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 17/07/09 at 00:10 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I noticed that nothing has happened for a while on this, nevertheless
>> assuming it is still relevant or of interest, I have spent 30 min
>> cooking together a proof-of-concept perl script that can report old
>> RFP/ITP bugs.
>>
>> When ever it finds an old bug, it prints a comma separated line
>> formatted like this:
>>
>> $BUG_ID, $REPORT_DATE, $TAGS, $SUBJECT
>>
>> Notes: It does not check if $SUBJECT contains comma's so filters should
>> abuse that there are only four fields to split it correctly if they care
>> about the subject.
>>
>> I hope you find it useful.
>
> Hi Niels,
>
> I think that this bug was "fixed" by a script that is run on a
> regular basis and closes old RFP. See for example
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=137712#22
>
> However, I can't find any mention of this script still running: there
> are indeed old RFPs still open.
>
Perhaps it was something that David ran himself (at least the email is
send from an "non-Debian" account). That would at least explain why we
cannot find anything on it still being active.
> Now, looking specifically at your script, another way to list such RFPs
> would be to use UDD (http://udd.debian.org/). Your script is fine, but
> you might want to take a look anyway.
Hopefully it is faster than querying the Bug tracker via SOAP. I will
try to create a local copy of it and play with it for a bit - even if we
do find the old script, I wager I could still use the practice.
~Niels
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