Fwd: closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

[jam at zoidtechnologies.com]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:49:14PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >Note that you might want to wait until after fudcon and until you have
> >gotten input from everyone before doing anything hasty... 
> 
> Probably a good idea to not be hasty on a large step like this, but the 
> same problem has been around since FC1 (forever?).
> 

yep.

I am +1 for adding an "EOL flag"

how about taking a page from the http://pear.php.net/ playbook and make some
stats so *everbody* (users, maintainers, etc) can see the "average number of
bugs" for a particular package. also stats like "10 open bugs, 8 closed, 2
that are EOL". the PEAR project has an irc bot that will alter /topic to
indicate the total number of bugs, but it is not necessary to go that far at
this point :)

hmm.. maybe a credit system where there would be a penalty for open and EOL
bugs vs. current ones.

regards,
 --jeff
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