RFC: KDE Bugzilla Bugs Expiration

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

I think one of the problems with our current Bugzilla database is that it contains a lot of "old" bugs and wishs.

As the manpower is limited and we sometimes not even keep up with the incoming new bugs, might
it be a good idea to adopt a similar strategy like the Qt Project and expire bugs that got not changed
since more than one year?

The idea would that a scripts closes all bugs that have no activity in the last year e.g.
on a weekly basis and the closing comment would contain some gentle note that if the bug is still an issue,
the reporter (or any person on CC) can just reopen it again.

I think this would make a lot of time consuming bug triaging much easier.

Greetings
Christoph

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