Severely Old Bugs

[Justin Zobel]

Hi Myriam,

My apologies, I wasn't clear in my initial email. I am not planning to 
close any bugs. I was merely thinking we could ask users to assist by 
confirming that the bugs reported long ago still exist in the more 
recent versions.

Regards,

Justin Zobel

On 20/12/20 4:44 am, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 02:18, Justin Zobel <justin.zobel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:justin.zobel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Team,
>
>     I'm new to Bug triaging however I have made strides to reduce the old
>     bugs that fill the bug tracker.
>
>     There are 3,604 bugs that haven't been changed in 5 years
>     (https://bit.ly/3rcNuyU <https://bit.ly/3rcNuyU>). Most of these
>     bugs would all be on old
>     unmaintained versions of the software.
>
>     I feel that asking users to confirm if these bugs still existed by
>     doing
>     a mass bug change would be beneficial to cleaning up the tracker
>     of bugs
>     that aren't likely even relevant.
>
> I don't think so, this should be decided by the maintainers of the 
> products before sending out any automated mails. Sending out mass 
> mails for old bugs is not something I would consider beneficial...
>
> As far as I am concerned:
>
> you don't need to touch the bugs regarding Amarok, I am handling 
> those, so please, do not send any more questions out to those.
> We are currently preparing a newer version and I will close or 
> transfer bugs to other versions once this is done, sending out 
> automated questions would not be helpful at this point.
>
> As for the other projects with these old bugs: please ask the 
> individual maintainers for this, unless these are definitely 
> unmaintained projects, then we need to decide whether those can be 
> closed without further notice.
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
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