While looking through bugzilla I often stumble in my searches on old
bugs - sometimes very old - which after a quick look I realize have
either already been fixed or won't be (because they pertain to some old,
unsupported platform for example).
I'm always tempted to close the former as duplicates of the actual fix
and the latter as WONTFIX so that they won't show up on the following
searches but I'm also afraid that closing a bug several years old is
akin to thread necromancy [1].
What's the general feeling about this? The relevant MDN page [2]
mentions that WONTFIX should only be used by module owners and peers so
that also makes me wary of using it even though in some cases I'm pretty
sure a bug won't ever be fixed. The typical case being bugs affecting
dead/unsupported platforms.
Gabriele
[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thread_necromancy
[2]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/What_to_do_and_what_not_to_do_in_Bugzilla
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