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+=== Bugmeister status report for work done 2024Q4
+
+In this quarter we came even closer to steady-state; we are dealing
+with incoming PRs more quickly these days.
+For reference:
+
+link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/page.cgi?id=dashboard.html&days=90[]
+
+The overall number of PRs came down from slightly over 11,600 to right
+at 11,000.
+This was due to work from several people to go over entire groups of PRs (see below).
+
+Mark Linimon attended several video calls with various src committers.
+They are doing some experimentation to learn what kind of effort is sustainable.
+The most recent effort was to evaluate the latest incoming src PRs;
+you will note that many of them from the past few weeks have been marked as requesting feedback.
+
+Bugmeister folks also did some passes through the database to clean up metadata:
+
+ * reassigned bugs away from committers who had had their commit bits safekept over the last year.
+
+ * cleaned up bugs for Product: `Base` System Status: `In Progress`.
+ A number of these were not being actively worked on.
+ The count is down to 184.
+ ** In particular, Mark Linimon believes "assigned to mailing list" means "it is not really In Progress".
+ Perhaps it's been discussed, but we do not really have a state for that.
+ (We can make an argument that that itself is a bug.)
+ ** We are now down to only a handful of the above, from "too many".
+ The concept is to make sure `In Progress` has some real meaning.
+
+ * evaluated PRs for mfc-stableN.
+ In particular, any having mfc-stable12 had that flag cleared.
+ ** The concept is to make sure these metadata have some real meaning as well:
+ e.g. "a commit has been made and should be evaluated for MFCs".
+ ** There are now a much smaller number of these.
+
+ * closed numerous PRs as "Overcome By Events":
+ ** (old version) + (contains the string "boot")
+ ** (old version) + (contains the strings "alpha" or "beta")
+
+ * evaluated "PR shows a commit" (possibly via Phabricator)" and "there was no trailing discussion".
+ ** In a few cases of the above we simply assigned them and made sure that mfc-stable[13|14] was set, if it seemed appropriate.
+ ** This does leave many that have a commit and then have trailing discussion. I think we will need more volunteers to go through those.
+
+ * removed many of the 'patch' keywords from PRs.
+ In the optimal case these should now be imputed by metadata in each attachment.
+ In a few cases where patches are submitted inline insteada of as an attachment, the keyword stays.
+ There may be a few of these left over from the GNATS conversion.
+ The use of inline patches should be discouraged, as automation has no way to detect them.
+ Thanks to our triagers, especially Alexander Ziaee.
+
+There were various discussions about bug futures that came up in various video chats.
+One is that there is a (supported) successor to Phabricator, which itself is now no longer developed.
+Multiple groups will need to coordinate to evaluate it.
+
+Jan Bramkamp has volunteered to help with the task "automate harvesting PRs and evalauting whether they still apply".
+Mark Linimon to collaborate.
+
+Clusteradm@ helped us fend off yet another crawler site.
+While that was ongoing, bugzilla was nearly unusable due to timeouts, as were other services hosted on the same machine (wiki and cgit among others).
+
+We also welcomed our newest Triage member, Lexi (aka 'ivy' on Discord).
+
+Finally, glebius was added to bugmeister@ alias as core.13 liaison.
+
+See also: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla/SearchQueries[]
+

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