Re: Bugzilla? (was Re: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-)

On 2003-02-11 19:07, Terry Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Interesting stuff.  I've been toying around with the idea of an
> > automated ``close and send a gentle reply to the originator'' script
> > for feedback PRs that are more than 3-4 months old and no activity has
> > appeared in the audit trail since the last transition to feedback.
> > If 3-4 months seems too short, we can change it to 1 year or more.
>
> What is the intent of timing out bug reports?  What is the perceived
> need?  If it's just to apply a filter so you can not see them, you
> can do that by constraining the search filter to ignore PR's older
> than some date, without having to remove them from the database.

I don't want PRs to automatically close after a while.  Having old PRs
around is good too.  The whole idea of PRs becoming 'suspended' and
then closed reminded me of what is now done with feedback timeouts.
That's all :)

> Old PR's are, to my mind, the most valuable of all PR's, in terms
> of attracting talent to the project: persistant breakage is often
> the most annoying.

Good point.


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