Bug fix over a year old

[RazvanN]

On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 at 21:08:35 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Monday, 3 June 2019 at 19:52:34 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:07 -0700, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> 
>> […]
>>> There's no purpose to closing things on github just because 
>>> they've
>>> aged below
>>> the fold.
>>
>> Lots of projects delete all open issues that are over x months 
>> old (for
>> some x usually > 12 and < 36) entirely for marketing purposes 
>> of not
>> having old issues that are not actioned. Seems like 
>> un-professional
>> behaviour to me.
>
> The proper course of action would be to go through old bugs and 
> verify them whether they can be closed (D1 bugs, bugs in phobos 
> modules that don't exist anymore, bugs in deprecated featuers) 
> or whether they still are reproducible (can't reproduce - can't 
> fix) in latest version.

For the past 1 month I started looking at the oldest bugs for 
dmd, closing the D1 only bugs and trying to fix those that I know 
how to fix. You will see that there are only 6 bugs with an id < 
1000 (in dmd) now, while there were more than 30 when I started. 
It's a slow process because many of the old bugs are really hard 
to fix, but I hope that at some point I will have closed all 
issues < 3000.