"Gardening" old bugreports

[Nicolas Fella]

Am 19.01.23 um 01:35 schrieb Nicolas Fella:

> Hi,
>
> can we please put the effort of "gardening" old bugreports on hold until
> we figured out whether this is actually something we want to do? Several
> people already expressed concerns about this.
>
> Improperly applied such mass changes can do more harm than good. We may
> close bugreports that are actually still useful just because nobody
> replied on then in a relatively short timeframe.
>
> Properly cleaning up old bugreports is important. However, it requires
> some level of care and expertise to judge whether a bugreport is still
> useful. Judging by the volume of bugreports that is pinged with the same
> copy&paste message this care is not  applied here.
>
> At minimum such initiatives should be announced and discussed before
> doing them, to allow people to give their input on the proposal. I am
> not aware of any such announcement/discussion.

For context, since not everyone may be aware of what's going on:

I'm referring to the practice of pinging old bugreports with a generic
"Is this still happening" message and setting the status to
NEEDSINFO_WAITINGFORINFO, which will cause the bug to be closed in 30(?)
days if not reset.