On 20:25 Thu 10 Mar , Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Hi all, > > I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed: > > * Number of open bugs is greater than 14,000 > * Number of open bugs untouched for more than 2 years - well over 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 1 and 2 years - well over 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 6 months and 1 year - well over > 2000. > * Number of open bugs untouched between 3 months and 6 months - over > 2000 > > The winner is bug #78406, which hasn't been touched for over 2240 days > - over 6 years - at the time of writing. > > I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be > touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason > or another. All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla. > > > So I'd like to suggest a drastic, perhaps controversial action. Mark > all bugs that haven't been touched for over (say) 3 months as > "Resolved:Wontfix", with a polite comment saying that it is closed due > to lack of resource amongst the volunteer developer community.
I do come back to bugs after years. They should not be closed if they are not fixed. "WONTFIX" for me means that there was a decision made that this will not be fixed, but that is not the case. +1 for the argument that 14000 open bugs is not a problem. Bugzilla is not something that needs to be clean and tidy. Closing them would generate a lot of work because of false positive while there is zero benefit. Cheers, Thomas > sure a suitable bugzilla script wiz could do that relatively easily. > Users who care about such bugs can still comment on them, or talk > directly to the assigned dev to highlight it's still a relevant issue > to them, or even to supply a solution against the current tree. > > It could be an ongoing policy, in which case, users who care about > them can keep bugs alive simply by posting useful updates to the bug, > describing how the issue still applies to a new revision for example. > > Just a thought from an old ex-dev... > > Kev. > > > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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