Auto-expiring bugs are getting absurd

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 22:48 +0000, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> On 05/02/14 22:42, David Timothy Strauss wrote:
> > This is also not the first time this has happened to me.
> 
> I'll chime in: when I first switched to Fedora (F14/15 era), I found 
> this quite obnoxious, enough that I remember it.
> 
> So there is also an issue of being a welcoming community to newcomers.

The problem is that no-one seems to come up with an alternative that's
any better. Leaving bugs on EOL versions open to rot away and be ignored
is no use. We *could* give everyone privs to re-open closed bugs, I
guess, and I personally don't think that would end terribly, but it's
kind of a radical plan.

The idea of not closing bugs that have comments after the EOL
notification doesn't necessarily make things better, I don't think; we'd
just have errors in the other direction. Say someone dropped a note 'oh
yeah, this is working now!' - it would be silly not to close the bug,
right?

algorithms are never perfect, but we do have to use them, as a
perennially under-resourced project.
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