"Gardening" old bugreports

[Vlad Zahorodnii]

On 1/19/23 02:35, Nicolas Fella wrote:> 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.

For projects like kwin it's unrealistic to go through all bug reports. 
Just for the record, there are currently almost 1.3k open bug reports 
filed for kwin.

Going through old bug reports is not fun! After triaging about 20 bug 
reports, I already feel exhausted. It's a time and energy consuming 
process that kills future motivation to do bug triaging again. Now scale 
that to 1000 bug reports!

I have no doubt that there are old bug reports that are actually still 
valid and useful. But, from my personal experience, the ratio of such 
good bug reports to "noise" is small.

 > 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.

IMHO it makes sense to poke old bug reports (say 1 year old or so)

My two cents,
Vlad