I closed a very old bug!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/16/18 5:01 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 19:45:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255
>>
>> I think it would be great to reduce the median age of open issues, and 
>> the median longevity of closed issues. I'm in talks with Sebastian 
>> about publishing such metrics. One obvious way to improve that is to 
>> look at old bugs - I suspect many are simple or have been fixed already.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> What about #5337 [1] ? It's the oldest Phobos bug in Bugzilla, from 
> 2010. It seems to be a proposal for tail-const support for Phobos 
> ranges, accompanied by an implementation. Should something be done about 
> that? I never felt the need for tail-const in the language.
> 
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5377

There's been some discussion about what to do with issues that propose 
enhancements like this. We want to make them available and searchable 
just in case someone working on a related proposal is looking for 
precedent and inspiration.

I was thinking of closing with REMIND or LATER. Seb is experimenting 
with moving the entire bug database to github issues, which may offer us 
more options for classification.


Andrei