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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Quantity of open bugs
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:46:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310224637.149e16da@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:25:10 +0000
"Kevin F. Quinn" <ml@kevquinn.com> wrote:

> I would guess these old untouched bugs aren't actually going to be
> touched, ever - a lot simply won't be relevant any more for one reason
> or another.  All they're doing is cluttering up bugzilla.

I never understand this argument.  How does an open bug "clutter" up bugzilla
any more than a closed bug?

It's pretty simple.  If a bug isn't fixed, it should be open.   Automatically
closing them doesn't make things "better", it just generates shitloads of
useless mail.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-03-10 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs Kevin F. Quinn
2011-03-10 21:03   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-03-10 21:33   ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Richards
2011-03-11  4:46   ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2011-03-11  8:07   ` Alec Warner
2011-03-11  8:25   ` George Prowse
2011-03-11 14:13   ` Thomas Kahle
2011-03-12 14:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-03-12 17:09     ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-12 17:16       ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-03-16  4:17     ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2011-03-16  9:46   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tomáš Chvátal

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