Re: [gentoo-dev] Last time touched bugs by year

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Freitag, 21. Juni 2013, 14:50:29 schrieb Markos Chandras:
> On 21 June 2013 12:44, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2013/6/21 Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
> > 
> >> Could "maintainer-wanted" assigned bugs be filtered? Otherwise we see a
> >> ton of that kind of bugs that, I think, we already know can become
> >> really old ;)
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> > 
> > You can do such yourself. Just clone the repo [1] and commit the updated
> > links.
> > 
> > Also my plan was to list even m-w bugs, because even those suckers get
> > obsoleted often so we should close them.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/qa-scripts.git;a=summary
> 
> That is true. There is nothing special about there m-w bugs. They are
> still unresolved bugs, for many years. No need to treat
> them differently.
> 

How can a m-w bug be resolved? Adding the package is unlikely to happen if 
last request came years ago.

My suggestion would be (this is how I handled it in printing):

1) leave message on bug 
"Is anyone still interested in this?"

2) if noone replies in 2 months, resolve as obsolete


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/


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