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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bugsnet cleanup
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Jan 8, 2017 7:47 AM, "Joe Watkins" <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote:

Morning internals,

Some of you may have noticed that a few of us have put considerable effort
into cleanup of pull requests on github, these are now manageable and I'm
quite confident that we will be able to merge pull requests in a timely
manner, and stay on top of it.

When it comes to bugsnet, there are feature requests and bugs that have
been open for more than 10 years, and nobody has talked about them in about
as long, they may concern defunct versions of PHP, or removed extensions or
SAPIs: These numbers in the thousands.

It's very difficult (impossible) to see a good reason for these to be open,
they are not useful at all.

With normal support for 5 ended, now is the perfect time to cleanup
bugsnet. If we can get the numbers down to something manageable, we have a
reasonable expectation to stay on top of them.

I think anyone that has been waiting a number of years for a response to a
feature request deserves to know that it is not reasonably happening, and
that there are better ways of trying to get a feature in than opening
yet-another-feature-request on bugsnet.

I think any bug report opened against 4 and not updated is useless.

I think anything with a patch attached targeting 5 is useless, regardless
of age; they should be encouraged to open a pull request on github against
a supported branch.

I'd like to hear what others think about cleaning up bugsnet, what criteria
we might use for a mass cleanup.

After a mass cleanup, I/we will go in and start working through whatever is
left, but 5k mostly irrelevant bugs is too much to ask, it would take me
months and months to work through those, time that nobody has, or will ever
have.

Cheers
Joe


As a general note: By convention the "Closed" state is only for bugs that
have been fixed or feature requests that have been implemented. If
something is not going to be fixed / implemented one of Won't Fix, Not a
Bug or Suspended should be used, as appropriate.

Nikita

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