On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 15:03 -0700, David Wohlferd wrote: > On 4/28/2016 9:41 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: > > On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: > > > As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking > > > thru the > > > bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or > > > overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still open. > > > > > > Is closing some of these old bugs of any value? > > > > > > If so, how do I pursue this? > > > > There are nearly 10,000 still unresolved bugs in Bugzilla, almost > > half of which are New, and a third Unconfirmed, so I'm sure any > > effort to help reduce the number is of value and appreciated. > > That's exactly what prompted me to ask. There's such a vast number > of them, it's hard to believe that 9 year old bugs are still of > interest.
Sometimes there is. Before randomly closing any bugs because they are too old, one should at least have a look at them and see if they're still an issue etc. Often things would've been fixed along the way, but not all of them. Cheers, Oleg