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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)

Original Submission

1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
2. "fat-fingered a script to automatically close bugs as Fedora 29 reached End-Of-Life" - https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/accidental-eol-bug-closures/
3. "Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/30/191228
4. "Fedora 26 Released" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/12/1623237
5. "Fedora 25 Released" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/11/22/1816208
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=37810

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