Closing old idle bugs?

[Bron Gondwana]

I think 20 a day is probably sane...

Prod Dave McMurtrie at CMU if you need bugzilla permissions. I'm sure we're happy to have anyone squishing bugs!

"Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com> wrote:

>Bron Gondwana wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 
>wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> > 
>> > would it be acceptable if old, idle bugs in bugzilla were closed after due 
>> > consideration?
>> 
>> That would be a great idea!
>> 
>
>;-)
>
>> > For example, I encounter bug #2590[1] with status NEW; I would like to 
>close 
>> > it to clean up the bug database, possibly only after requesting some 
>feedback 
>> > (like I did with this one).
>> > 
>> > [1] https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2590
>> 
>> Maybe we should do a bug cleaning week?  I'm on leave at the moment.  I 
>think
>> we should probably go through all the bugs as a group and decide on their
>> status and applicability.  I suspect quite a few of them are no longer valid
>> or already solved - just not updated.
>> 
>
>It seems that I do not have any permissions to change a bug's status; I have a 
>new account.
>
>> Perhaps if we posted one email per bug to the mailing list and asked for a
>> discussion on its merits.  Maybe not all at once so they don't get lost in 
>the
>> haze, but we could group them up.
>> 
>
>One bug a day through the list would be very inefficient, and I'm sure there's 
>bugs that actually do deserve love & attention. There's a number of bugs that 
>have been resolved already, just haven't been closed. Let's remember that if a 
>bug is closed while not satisfactory to the reporter, the bugs can simply be 
>reopened.
>
>Most of them look like they just need some follow-up and can be closed in 
>2/4/6 weeks if no response has been given to any inquiries for more 
>information (like #2590, the time window is a project choice of course).
>
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>
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