+1!

Am 20.03.2014 17:39, schrieb Laurent PETIT:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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
>
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