[Scons-dev] bug prune

[Bill Deegan]

O.k.
I'll try to get this setup this weekend.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:47 AM Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 11:44 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > On one hand dropping the number of open bugs will have significant
> > appearance/PR  improvements.
> > (I've seen comments saying 600+ bugs outstanding the project must not be
> > still alive).
>
> I'd say having a lot of open bugs in a project that clearly has regular
> commits (as SCons does) could lead to the the thought that the SCons team
> doesn't care about submitted issues – rather than being a dead project.
>
> Age of bugs is also a dimension. Bugs open for more than a few years
> indicate
> a "no-one actually cares about this" and so are candidates for closing with
> the option of reopening – or better a new bug opening given the difference
> between the software now compared to then.
>
> > But dropping 620 of 680 bugs because they're stale, but possibly still
> > unresolved issues probably isn't the best.
>
> It depends. Some may just not be relevant any more. Given the rate of
> change
> of SCons code base, any bug report unaddressed in say five years should be
> closed.
>
> > Would we tag them stale and close them, allowing them to be identified as
> > possibly not resolved, but with no recent activity?
>
> Or delete them in the hope of getting a new bug report if the problem is
> still
> a real one.
>
> > We used to have weekly (ish) bug triage IRC meetings.
> > Though to be honest some issues never got addressed because the time
> > required to thoroughly investigate them and resolve and the few people
> > reporting them dropped their effective priority.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I was never able to get involved in triaging since the meeting were always
> held as a time when I was in bed a sleep.
>
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