----- Original Message ----- > 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.
I think David, Nick, Henri, and you are right - there are lots of old bugs that we each think are important enough to fix. (Yes, I have some as well.) In my mind the real question is, given all of the work that we all have to do, are we going to spend the time to fix these bugs? If not, as a reporter would you prefer to see your bug go untouched for an indeterminate amount of time or would you prefer to see an acknowledgement that your bug will not be fixed at which point you can either shrug your shoulders or make a stronger case for why the bug should be fixed? All that said, I feel like I have inadvertently hijacked this thread. I respect the opinions of those on this thread and my comments simply reflect my thoughts. Lawrence _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
