On Friday, July 31, 2015 04:01:37 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Freitag, 31. Juli 2015 14:05:09 CEST, laurent Montel wrote: > > >> Especially for KDE PIM, given the size of the userbase and the amount of > >> developers (3), bugs often take more than a year to get to and > >> to be fixed. > > > > +1 > > As Daniel wrote we have a lot of bug and a very small team. > > So we can't able to fix bug in 1 year. > > And I don't want to see all bugs closed after 1 year because it's useful to > > read all bug and sometime it takes me some months/years to fix bugs. > > Wishes: > ------- > should *never* be closed automatically - either a Human declares them WONTFIX > or it's "patches welcome" - they may however be resubmissioned again once a > year "is this actually reasonable?" so a developer can say "what a bullshit > of an idea" and close it ;-) > > Bugs: > ----- > should get regular (every 6 months after inactivity?) updates like "is this > still an issue", setting them "WAITING FOR INFO" and if not responded within > the next month (and reopened) be closed "WORKS FOR ME" > This will eg. remind developers to "oh, yes - I fixed a dupe of this 3 month > ago, totally forgot about this one". > > > Autoclosing a bug that maybe has not ever even been touched by a developer is > a blunt offense and teaches users to either start nagging (in fear of getting > their bug closed) or being frustrated (to avoid 4-letter words ;-) > > Also "fixing" issues by ignoring them is really bad style. > agree dvartil's suggestion to follow the fedora model, in combination with the 6month nag seems pretty good.
I strongly disagree with trashing arbitrarily based on the bug's age.
