Re: bug tracker gardening for bugday

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:24, Adam GROSZER <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello Tres,
>>
>> You think we have a chance to get rid of old cruft?
>> Like 5 years old nothing happened since then bugs.
>> I think we should add a tag "too old", add a note to warn subscribers,
>> then set a status "Won't fix" after a month.
> 
> There is a state "not enough information" or something like that, and
> we can close bugs that has been in that state for  a period of time.
> If the bug can be reproduced, it should not be closed just because
> it's old, even if it's 8 years old.

"Incomplete" is the auto-expiring state:  if nobody responds in 30 days,
it automatically disappears.

I agree that we should at least attempt to reproduce even really old
bugs before assigning them 'wontfix' status (if we can't) or
'incomplete' (if we need more information).


Tres.
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