Re: 4K Bugs

[Paul Eggert]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I don't know how well this works for projects that auto-close bug
> reports.  Anybody have experience with that?

I've done it both ways, and both ways work. As long as there's a sense of which 
bugs are more important and which less, and we never lose tracks of bugs even 
when fixed, the two ways are roughly equivalent. Of course one needs to have 
enough resources devoted to bug-fixing (and we should present the list of 
unfixed bugs in a non-demoralizing way :-).

One option is to tag all open bugs as "moreinfo" after a new release, while 
sending email to the bug reporters to check whether "moreinfo" the bugs are 
still applicable in the new release. We can then remove the "moreinfo" tag for 
bugs that are later reported to still be relevant. This would require some 
discipline on our part, of course.