[GNC-dev] What about outdated open bugs in Gnucash Bugzilla?

[David Carlson]

There are even older enhancement requests that are still valid - e.g.
*Bug 476114.* <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476114>

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:06 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Colin,
>
> That's a worthwhile idea that could be easily applied to all bugs over n
> years old. One could start with n around 10, perhaps meaning everything
> against versions before 2.4.0.  Care to spend some quality time in Bugzilla?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Oct 27, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Possibly an alternative, used in Ubuntu for example, is when a version
> > goes out of support that any bugs against that version have a comment
> > added saying the version is out of support, saying that if the bug is
> > relevant to a later version then please to post a comment, and marking
> > the bug as needing info, so it will expire after a time if there is no
> > input,
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 at 21:46, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> John,
> >>
> >> Is there perhaps a need to place maintenance limits on GnuCash release
> >> versions,  i.e. at a specified time after release they become
> unsupported,
> >> as is bugs and all. This is more than likely what actually happens in
> >> practice given limited skilled developer time. As bug reports are often
> tied
> >> to a specific version, bugs could then be removed from bugzilla when the
> >> version they apply to becomes unsupported.  Most bugs are not show
> stoppers
> >> and those that are or are particularly inconvenient are usually fixed
> fairly
> >> quickly after release.
> >>
> >> Enhancement requests could possibly have a longer lifetime but perhaps
> there
> >> is a need for expiry on those as well. E.g. if they didn't make it into
> the
> >> next major release and you really need that feature you raise the issue
> >> again (or work on it yourself).
> >>
> >> David Cousens
> >>
> >>
> >>
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