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Subject: Re: bugsnet cleanup
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From: info@stricted.net (Jan Altensen)

Am 08.01.2017 um 07:46 schrieb Joe Watkins:
> 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
> 

+1 from me
i would help cleaning up but im not familiar with the bugsnet system :/