closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

[Christopher Aillon]

On 01/09/2008 12:22 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> So do we have a nebulous group of 'programmers with free time' and call
> upon them as an when they're needed, or do we have a programmer sign up
> to 'own' a package in conjunction with the 'packager'?
> 
> I favour the latter, for much the same reason as we have specific
> package owners in the first place rather than a free-for-all¹:

Why not both?  This way the not as popular packages may have a chance of 
getting fixes from someone when needed.