Re: random thought about bug-buddy (in the 'very long term thinking' category)

[Wayne Schuller <k_wayne linuxpower org>]

hi,

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 12:06, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 	Okay, reading back - the argument was 'We can't get rid of
> these bug reports because someone might want them'. Well, we will and
> do get rid of old bug reports. The current way (that Luis did a few
> months back) was to just close them out and say 'This bug is too old
> to be fixed'. I'd like us to also put something in place that if
> another bug is logged that falls into the category of 'too old, just
> close it', that it shouldn't even reach the database in the first
> place.

There are two scenarios here:
	1. People who need to upgrade to the latest stable version for their
platform. For these we could put some magic on the bugzilla-bugbuddy xml
stuff (or the bugzilla mail backend) to not accept reports from versions
that are too old. We could decide on a case by case basis per module. I
would be willing to try and implement this.

	2. People who have the latest stable version, but on an old platform.
We still need these reports. It's arrogant to close a report simply
because it's not on the platform YOU are hacking.

thanks,
wayne