Feb 23, 2022, 5:48 AM
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On 2/23/22 04:12, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
> That's not entirely fair...
>
> We have done this periodically, by spamming the bugzilla entries with
> "please review under a current version and report back."
>
> Hearing no response after a month, it's trivial to close them for more
> info needed. Many aren't applicable to the current revision.
>
> The reporters who want to be heard will respond, and that will
> percolate the interesting bugs from the configuration mistakes and
> other common confusion points.
Most of our docs bug reporters never reengage with the issue. They find
a problem, report it, and then go find solutions on Reddit or
Stackoverflow or whatever, and ignore any further request for detail,
because they've already solved *their* problem.
I'll try to do another run through of the open doc bugs in the next week
or so, and close the ones that appear to be stale. Just haven't had time
for the last few ... um ... years.
> Few projects of this scope ever get to inbox 0 state, so a ping to
> ensure it is a valid report and draw attention to the most significant
> defects is appropriate, I and several others have done this exercise
> many times, clearing as many as 1,000 issues or so over the course of
> a month or two. But a completely automated process simply closing them
> would be considered rude, unless the reporter themself can reopen them
> (and the closure message should state that.)
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 3:13 AM Stefan Eissing <stefan@eissing.org> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all who participated. Almost all of you seem to be happy with the way things are. I rest my case. ????
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Stefan
>>
>>> Am 19.02.2022 um 23:59 schrieb Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>:
>>>
>>> Speaking only for the docs bugs, I have recently looked through them, and while many of them are in the "older than a year" basket, almost all of them are still valid - just we haven't had time to address them yet. It would be a shame to lose this information, as it's what I pick away at when I have spare moments now and then.
>>>
>>> --Rich
>>>
>>> On 2/16/22 04:32, Stefan Eissing wrote:
>>>> How about we close stale issues on our bugzilla after a year without changes with
>>>> WONTFIX
>>>> We are sorry, but no one found the interest/time to work on this.
>>>> ideally as an automated job somewhere?
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Stefan
>>