Graham Lauder wrote: > On Saturday 30 September 2006 05:22, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Andrew Brown wrote: >> > Reading that thread, in the bright light of hindsight, explains why I >> > really don't believe that open source is a volunteer activity any more. >> > One way or another, OOo is pretty much good enough for most things now. >> > But I no longer expect any of the well-established bugs to get fixed. >> > There just aren't the programmers to do it. So I no longer bother much >> > with reporting things or with QA. >> >> Maybe we should definitely close many of the old issues that lie there >> for years but I surely wouldn't like to miss new bug reports as they >> still can point us to important problems that need a fix in the next >> release(s). >> >> Best regards, >> Mathias > > I agree that we probably need to get a bit more active in this regard. There > are a lot of issues that need closing if only on the basis of age or > irrelevancy. > > However having said that there seems to be some seemingly small issues that > fall into a gap in the grey foggy crossover area between one persons bug and > another's enhancement that are quite old. For Example > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854 reported in '02 on V > 1.0.0 has 40 votes and has pretty much been ignored, although the high number > of dupes does indicate it is still a current issue. > > So we still have to be a little careful but undoubtedly we need a policy on > aged or irrelevant issues.
Of course age shouldn't be the only criterion for closing issues. Maybe when we have a look on our oldest ones just to see if we can close them some of them might get a higher chance to get fixed? Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
