----- Original Message ----- > Opened that long ago, and haven't been touched for a long time? Or just > opened that long ago?
My simple query was based on bug creation date. The handful of bugs that I looked at I think hadn't been meaningfully touched in at least 5 years. Lawrence > -- > - Milan > > On 2013-12-04, at 14:15 , Lawrence Mandel <lman...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > ----- 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 > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
