Opened in 2002 - 9 Opened in 2003 - 3 Opened in 2004 - 12 Opened in 2005 - 37
Seems to me that the 24 issues that are now over a year old really should be evaluated for validaty or closed as unlikely to ever be fixed. Thoughts?
I'm actually encouraged that there are as few as 24 "old" issues still open, we probably ought to try and do something about them though...
I agree that they should be evaluated for validity. I'll bet that a lot of them have been fixed; since I started nagging people, many bugs have been closed with "oh yeah - that was fixed in 1.32" type comments. If they're still valid bugs, and are on supported platforms, then they should be remain open until they are fixed.
I don't know if we can invent new states, but if we could it would be nice to move some of these to open-no-maintainer. The other question is -- does the originator care, at this point, about a 3 year old unfixed bug? If they haven't gotten a fix by no it seems likely that they worked around it or moved on.
Just thinking out loud here on how to improve the process...
Also thinking out loud, could we get 12 volunteers to check two each? I bet most could be closed as "already fixed", and a few others would probably be either trivial to fix, not a bug, or because the user is using VC6! John.