Advent of bugfixes

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/23/19 7:02 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 23.12.19 08:29, berni44 wrote:
>> 22. day: 4 bugs were removed (issues 7737, 17232, 17597, 19564)
>>
> 
> Both of my issues you have attempted to close should not have been. 
> Please stop the vandalism. I hope you have not been closing other issues 
> that should have stayed open, but it appears your judgement can be 
> rather biased towards closing issues. Probably someone should go over 
> all the closed issues and make sure we are not losing anything of value.

I feel there is no reason to take offense or consider this "vandalism". 
If an issue is not touched in a long time (years even), closing it can 
be a valid resolution. He's closed bugs of mine from over 10 years ago, 
that I completely forgot about, and don't care about any more. If I want 
them to remain open, I'll reopen. At the very least, it forces people to 
reconsider the issue instead of ignoring it. There is very little harm 
in closing and reopening an issue.

I'd rather have 10 stale issues closed and one relevant one incorrectly 
closed (that I reopen) than leave all the stale issues.

-Steve