Yes, as I understand it, this will make abrt difficult to use.
Historically, we get about 2500 bug reports via abrt per release.
That's roughly a quarter of reports per release on average. On the
other hand, we're not particularly good at fixing abrt-reported bugs.
Here's the resolution (excluding duplicates) of abrt-reported bugs for
F19–34:
EOL 32675
ERRATA 3565
INSUFFICIENT_DATA 2965
CURRENTRELEASE 1162
NOTABUG 983
UPSTREAM 823
WORKSFORME 680
WONTFIX 529
CANTFIX 461
NEXTRELEASE 423
RAWHIDE 199
That's a ~73% EOL closure rate, compared to roughly 50% for all bugs.
Depending on which resolutions you include as "fixed", we fix roughly
14% of abrt-reported bugs.
I just found out about this change yesterday. I suspect it's a
security-driven requirement, so I don't know how much room there will
be for changes. I'll pass this on to the Bugzilla team and see what
they say.
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Ben Cotton
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Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
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