On 04/12/2013 20:30, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
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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).
For what it's worth, that's not my understanding of what WONTFIX means
to everyone. I understood it to mean something more like
"SHOULDNOTFIX", a decision that should only be reversed by the person
that made it or a higher authority.
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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?
I think if "my" bug isn't fixed, I would prefer to think that it might
be fixed in future, rather than being told it's not important and/or
will not be fixed (not that it is necessarily good to think that). I
would imagine in many cases that, of the probably dozens of people that
will get notified when a bug is closed, someone is going to try and make
a case for why the bug should be fixed. If you can make a case for
closing the bug over objections, then the age of the bug doesn't matter.
If not, then I wonder if the time taken in opening up a lot of old
discussions is worth the gain.
As I was told when I misguidedly attempted some cleaning up of bugs many
years ago, Bugzilla is primarily a database of bug reports (as opposed
to being primarily a work-tracking tool).
Michael
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