This seems like a pragmatic suggestion. Even bugs between 2 years and 6 month ago could get a message stating that if they still haven't been updated in status (e.g. something from the author like "still valid") within one or two months, they will also be closed ?
2014-03-20 17:32 GMT+01:00 Lars Vogel <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > We have currently 564 Bug in e4 tools and UI. It appears to me that not a > lot of our e4 tools committer are actively looking at old bugs. At least > I'm not aware of anyone (except me) solving a bug older than 6 months in e4 > tools in the last year. > > I see the following problems with that amount of bugs. > > 1.) Lots of the reported problems may have been solved in the past > 2.) Lots of the reported problems are not relevant any more > 3.) Interested contributors have no way of weaving out 1.) or 2.) > 4.) New bug reporters have no way to review them which leads to a lot of > new bugs which report the same problem as an existing bug > 5.) Committers cannot review this amount of bugs and critical or easy > fixes are lost in this amount of bugs > > So in the end this huge amount of bugs leads to a situation in which no > one still looks at the old bugs. I > > I therefore suggest that we establish the following guideline: Bug which > have not been changed within the last 2 years are closed automatically. We > could also filter out bugs which contain certain keywords. > > The closing comment should be similar to the following: > > ------------- > This bug has not received any update within the last two years. Therefore we > mark that bug as WORKSFORME. > > If the reported problem still exists, please reopen this bug. We are sorry > for the inconvenience but this automatic process helps us to identify the > relevant bugs. > -------------- > > I created the following report for this > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430810 > > Best regards, Lars > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > >
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