Virgil Dupras wrote: > On 2/18/08, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure we should be throwing RFE's away with such casual abandon >> just because nobody had time to pay them any attention in six months - >> nor bugs neither, come to that. > > Well, we have to evaluate the chances of our older tickets to come to > completion. I'm of the opinion that ticket getting older have very > small chances of ever being completed. RFE for python 2.4 are likely > to be irrelevant. old bugs are likely to already be fixed. Maybe we > could run a statistical analysis to compute the chances of a ticket > that have seen no activity for 8 months to ever be successfully > completed? How many successful tickets to we have that had a 8+ months > gap between activity? Or maybe we could just clean out the 400 tickets > that are 2+ years old? What are the chances for a 2 years old ticket > to be completed? > But the decision shouldn't be made on the age of the ticket, rather on the (continued?) validity of the information it contains.
I appreciate the desire to "keep the issue tracker clean", but I think human intelligence needs to be applied to the task, not just a date-based cutoff. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
