On 12/3/2013 11:15 PM, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
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).
I started trying to count how many open bugs were still important enough that I would consider fixing or offering to mentor a fix of. I lost track in my head of the count well before bug 100K, even after I removed all RFEs from the list. Some of these bugs (I'm focusing on mailnews bugs) are unfixed only because they depend on extremely complicated core layout bugs--the most notable ones being bug 31052 (which requires <iframe seamless>) and bug 213945 (which requires invasive changes to nsITreeView).
Bug age correlates more closely to difficulty of fix than importance of fix, particularly for non-RFEs.
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