Re: Open bugs report, May 1 2026

> On May 1, 2026, at 9:33 AM, Mads Toftum <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 08:36:42AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
>> I was thinking last night it might be interesting to dig through and figure out what would be a good place for a beginner to get started, or whether there’s some opportunity for cleanup.
>> 
>> TL:DR - we have almost 1500 open bugs, most of which are ancient history.
>> 
>> Pretty graphs! - http://httpd.rcbowen.com/httpd-open-bugs.html
>> 
> Nice work. 
> Would be tempting to close out old reports to get rid of some of the
> noise. If not by date, then at least close anything on unsupported
> versions.

Yes, that would be fantastic. I’m never a big fan of bulk-closing tickets based on age, but there’s *definitely* a lot of stuff in here against modules that are long-retired, features that no longer exist, and a lot of other ancient history.

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>> I suspect that a *bunch* of them are no longer valid. (There are, for example, 3 open bugs against the Win32 MSI Installer)
>> 
> I had a quick look at "Critical & Blocker Bugs" - there's a lot of NEW
> reports and perhaps some things that had better gone to users@httpd.

Yeah, there’s a lot of user support stuff in here that isn’t actually a bug report. There’s also a lot of tickets where someone did the work, fixed a problem, and asked the reporter for their +1 to close, and then it just sat and rotted. This kind of stuff is what the AI tools are actually good at, and I’m going to do some more digging.

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Rich Bowen
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