[CMake] CMake bug tracker discussion

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> I have a third idea that we have not yet tried:
>
> What do people think of automatically closing bugs if they are not modified
> for some period of time (say 6 months).   They can always be reopened if the
> closed.   By closing them, it will notify those that have expressed interest
> in the bug.  We could send the closed bugs to the cmake-developer list just
> like the new ones.  That way all developers will know that they are being
> closed.

It's a bad idea, IMHO.

If a user took the time to file a bug and CMake developers do nothing
in 6 months, closing it is the wrong thing to do.

The message you are sending to the bugreporter is "I didn't care about
the bug you reported in 6 months, and now I will care even less". For
an example, see what I said yesterday about bug 8707: two years later,
a patch provided, still no action on Kitware's side.

On the other hand, on KDE, when we moved to KDE4, we closed almost all
KDE3-related bugs without checking if they had been fixed. It did not
made too much sense to keep bug reports around unless they were
feature requests.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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