----- Original Message ----- > 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.
I'm taking a stronger stance and suggesting that we should be able to wontfix bugs that likely aren't worth anyone's time or attention. As a concrete example, what is the value in keeping the following bugs open? bug 2875 - Core::Networking:HTTP P5 enhancement opened 15 years ago bug 3246 - Core::Layout:Block and Inline P3 opened 14 years 9 months ago bug 6115 - Core::Networking P3 enhancement opened 14 years 7 months ago bug 6796 - Core::Editor P3 bug opened 14 years 6 months ago bug 39230 - Core::XUL P3 bug opened 13 years 6 months ago In fact, there at 6925 bugs across all Bugzilla products currently in the new or unconfirmed state that were opened more than 10 years ago. I would assert that if a bug hasn't been fixed in 10 years it probably isn't important enough to spend time on now. We can always reopen or refile if the issue becomes more pressing (by anyone's judgement). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=1995-01-01&chfieldto=2003-01-01&list_id=8772268&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&resolution=DUPLICATE&order=bug_id&limit=0 Lawrence _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
