Close D1 bugs?

[w0rp]

On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 02:28:36 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote:
> I never thought to do that as I have just gone by the "Bug 
> Tracker" graphic on the website up until now. Interesting idea. 
> Here is a chart comparing how the number of open bugs changes 
> when those two filters are applied to the "Bug Tracker" queries.
>                          Before   After
> Regression               9        9
> Blocker                  17       17
> Critical                 69       63
> Major                    221      206
> Normal, minor, trivial   1923     1420
> Enhancement              1153     866
> All Open                 3392     2586
>
> That large of a difference surprised me. Seems like it would 
> help with the impression of quality to someone first coming to 
> the site by displaying the data filtered for D2 instead. It 
> also seems more accurate since the D1 only stuff is not really 
> being worked on and that page presents sort of a TODO list.
>
> Joseph

I approve of filtering the graphic this way. If you define "D" as 
meaning "current D" or "D2" and "D1" as "old D," even though D1 
has current use, then this information would be clearer. The 
numbers for the current versions are more relevant to most people.