Re: Bug reports for for versions < 5.1.0

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:16:52 -0800, Rik wrote:
> How should we handle bug reports for versions of Octave that are now
> deprecated (< 5.1.0)?  I'm not thinking of reports which identify a
> particular missing feature in Octave.  Instead, there seem to be a lot of
> reports about issues which have since been fixed and are tied only to a
> specific version (for example, slow start-up of the GUI on Windows in
> 4.4.0).  My proposal would be to close them all as some distros do when a
> version becomes obsolete and have users file a new bug report against a new
> version of Octave if the behavior can still be found.

Yeah, if a bug is clearly fixed in 5.1, it should definitely be closed
as fixed. I think that's what we've always done.

If it's not clear whether it's been fixed or not, I would re-tag it as
5.1.0 or dev, ask for someone to test it again in the current version,
and close if there is no reply after several weeks.

I just re-tagged a bunch of open unfixed 5.0.x bugs against either 5.1.0
or dev, depending on whether they seem like suitable stable fixes or
development tasks.

-- 
mike

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