On 7/17/13, David T. Lewis <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:55:18PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> We have approximately 700 open Mantis reports with a last updated date
>> prior to 2010. That seems a bit? poor.
Could you please provide the query URL which gives this report?
>> Many of them have never been assigned, quite a lot look like they're
>> utterly irrelevant now and a few are still assigned after three years! I
>> even have one assigned since 2005 :-0
>>
>> Uh, you did know that we nominally have a Mantis bug tracking system,
>> right?
http://bugs.squeak.org for anyone interested in doing some rapid
>> trimming. I'm sure a lot can be very quickly dismissed and closed.
>>
>> C'mon; you know you want to gain that satisfied feeling of having laid
>> waste to entire swathes of wasteland.
>>
>> tim
>
> Mantis at bugs.squeak.org has not received much attention in recent years,
> but
> it is really quite useful for issues that cannot be immediately resolved in
> trunk
+1
Think of is as well as something like a 'back log'.
> and/or on the mailing list. Tidying up the old cruft would be very helpful.
Yes, indeed. Maybe one per day on average?
We could put a lot of things to something as ''on-hold' and later on
as 'closed-not-resolved'.
-- Hannes
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