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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:35:04 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: Bugzilla? (was Re: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-)
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Thus spake Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com>:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> 
> > What needs to be done is various 'cut off points' need to somehow be
> > established ... for instance, anything dealing pre-4.x should be closed
> > ...
> 
> How about putting "policies" in the PR Guidelines something like this:
> 
>     PRs older than 2 years shall be marked "suspended", where "older" is
>     measured from the last PR log activity which a committer deems to
>     indicate that the PR might still be valid for any OS version.
>     
> (This allows PRs to be "refreshed".)
> 
>     PRs older than 4 years shall be marked "closed" if 10 minutes of
>     research by a committer does not convince him that any of the PR's
>     problems is, more likely than not, a problem in a recent release,
>     where "older" is measured from the creation date of the PR.
> 
> (This allows old PRs to be closed, even if recently "refreshed".)
> 
> The numbers might be too small.

I dislike the idea of making PR expiry automated in any way.  A PR
should be closed because the problem has been solved, or after an
excuse is given as to why the problem will not be solved.  If you
start closing them and the best reason you can give is ``this
problem has been around for too long'', people will get quite
pissed off.  Moreover, you're going to have to do a pretty darn
good job of closing PRs to make the PR database any more
navigable; a better approach to solving that problem is using a
better database, like Bugzilla.

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