Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-11-08 Thread John Ralls
> On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:14 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 22:24, Christian Gruber > wrote: >> >> Ok, I'll start doing that on all bugs older than 10 years. If there is >> no reaction after at least one month, I'll close them as RESOLVED. > > Does the system have a setting so

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 22:24, Christian Gruber wrote: > > Ok, I'll start doing that on all bugs older than 10 years. If there is > no reaction after at least one month, I'll close them as RESOLVED. Does the system have a setting so that automatically closes bugs that have been marked as needing

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-11-07 Thread Christian Gruber
Ok, I'll start doing that on all bugs older than 10 years. If there is no reaction after at least one month, I'll close them as RESOLVED. By the way, I found some bugs, which were already commented this way by "Wm", but without setting status to NEEDINFO. And he/she didn't close the bugs.

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-28 Thread David Carlson
There are even older enhancement requests that are still valid - e.g. *Bug 476114.* On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:06 PM John Ralls wrote: > Colin, > > That's a worthwhile idea that could be easily applied to all bugs over n > years old. One could

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-27 Thread John Ralls
Colin, That's a worthwhile idea that could be easily applied to all bugs over n years old. One could start with n around 10, perhaps meaning everything against versions before 2.4.0. Care to spend some quality time in Bugzilla? Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 27, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Colin Law

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-27 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 27, 2019, at 2:45 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > John, > > Is there perhaps a need to place maintenance limits on GnuCash release > versions, i.e. at a specified time after release they become unsupported, > as is bugs and all. This is more than likely what actually happens in >

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-27 Thread Colin Law
Possibly an alternative, used in Ubuntu for example, is when a version goes out of support that any bugs against that version have a comment added saying the version is out of support, saying that if the bug is relevant to a later version then please to post a comment, and marking the bug as

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-27 Thread David Cousens
John, Is there perhaps a need to place maintenance limits on GnuCash release versions, i.e. at a specified time after release they become unsupported, as is bugs and all. This is more than likely what actually happens in practice given limited skilled developer time. As bug reports are often

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-27 Thread Christian Gruber
Am 27.10.19 um 03:40 schrieb John Ralls: On Oct 26, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: Hi, I'm currently looking through the (quite long) buglist on Gnucash Bugzilla to see, where I can provide help. Unfortunatelly I'm a little bit frustrated, because

Re: [GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-26 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 26, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Christian Gruber > wrote: > > Hi, I'm currently looking through the (quite long) buglist on Gnucash > Bugzilla to see, where I can provide help. > Unfortunatelly I'm a little bit frustrated, because of many entries, which > are

[GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

2019-10-26 Thread Christian Gruber
Hi, I'm currently looking through the (quite long) buglist on Gnucash Bugzilla to see, where I can provide help. Unfortunatelly I'm a little bit frustrated, because of many entries, which are still open (STATUS != RESOLVED), but haven't changed for years. Which of