Closing all bugs?

[Christian Esken]

Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2007 schrieb Bram Schoenmakers:
> Hi,
> 
> As you may have read on my blog post [1] I suggest (after Tom's attempts) to 
> close all bugs, not wishes, in KDE Bugzilla with KDE4 approaching. This is 
> because of all the old cruft (KDE3 based bug reports), which is unlikely to 
> be cleaned up if we don't do it now.
> 
> Besides our users I'd like to hear what our (core) developers think of this 
> idea and how we should do this. That's why I ask here at k-c-d.
> 
> Would this be a good idea to do?

It should be done for components that have been deprecated and are not shipping any longer, like kmilo or kicker (critical, grave and major might be an exception, so they can be fixed in a KDE3.5.x bugfix release).
But a general amnesty is not a good idea. Many KDE4 applications are based on KDE3 code, and several bugs will still apply.

However this discussion will end, please exclude product "kmix" from any automated close. I'm regulary cleaning the bugs myself (including "pinging" the bug repoter). Everything that is now in the Bugzilla for KMix is a valid report: It either needs to be verified in KDE4, implemented, or there are other very good reasons to keep the reports open.

  Christian