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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bugsnet cleanup
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

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Afternoon Nikita,

ACK, we should of course use appropriate status ... I have only closed a
few so far before I thought a discussion is probably in order, so no harm
done.

Cheers
Joe

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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