On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>> On the other hand, on KDE, when we moved to KDE4, we closed almost all >> KDE3-related bugs without checking if they had been fixed. It did not >> made too much sense to keep bug reports around unless they were >> feature requests. > > That sounds like you would support version-based (as opposed to > time-based) bug report closing. > > To be specific what would you think of a new bugtracker policy to > close all bugs automatically that were submitted for old versions of > CMake with the message, "please reopen this bug if it still applies to > CMake-2.<N>"? Such a policy seems reasonable to me (especially if the > old version cutoff is sufficiently in the past, e.g., close all bugs > relevant to CMake-2.<N-2> when the 2.<N> series starts) and avoids the > implicit bad message to bug reporters of a time-based policy that we > both dislike so much. That looks reasonable to me for "plain" bugreports but not for feature requests or any bugreport which includes a proposed patch -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake