Bug fix over a year old

[JN]

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.