Lawrence Mandel writes: > ----- Original Message ----- >> On 27/11/13 07:36, Gabriele Svelto wrote: >> > 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]. >> >> Validly closing a bug is not thread necromancy. With Henri's >> concerns in mind, feel free to clean up Bugzilla on bug at a >> time :-) > > I agree. I don't think that keeping a large backlog of bugs in > limbo - where no one is looking at the bugs or has any intention > to fix any of them - helps anyone. I don't mean to suggest that > we should close out all old bugs but that it is appropriate to > close out old bugs that we don't think warrant any attention.
Someone else may like to fix the bugs, so please don't close the bugs if it is reasonably likely that they may still be present. To try to be clear, I'm agreeing with Henri and Gerv, but I'm not sure that Lawrence understands. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
