Please Congratulate My New Assistant

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 16:40:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 16:05:03 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> Well, the incorrect behavior is a liability whether we have an 
>> issue for it in bugzilla or not. The issue itself is an asset.
>
> IFF there is development process that ensure that old issues 
> are being reconsidered for every release. Having a process 
> where >3 year issues are being recorded in a document in a 
> structured fashion probably would be a good idea. Then they 
> could be used for planning. Without that they will most likely 
> never be included in any kind of plan? It is just easier to 
> ignore an "issue" that has been silently accepted for a decade 
> than a recent one.

And how are you ever going to implement such a development 
process if you don't have the old bug reports lying around to 
begin with? :)

I agree that the process you describe would be better than what 
we currently have, but that does not mean what we currently have 
is completely worthless.