On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 21:54:54 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
However, since that time, two or three people have been killing off random trackers, seemingly because they personally don't like the concept.
No, because the bugs in question were junk. Junk bugs get killed all the time (eg, bugs with no test case). Trackers are particularly likely to be junk bugs. They are certainly not always though, for example bugs which must be fixed before a particular release is made.
