Please Congratulate My New Assistant

[Imperatorn]

On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 10:39:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/24/2021 10:46 PM, Imperatorn wrote:
>> Imo it's reasonable to close or archive issues that are older 
>> than 10 years.
>
> We are not going to do that just because they are old.
>
> If a bug still exists in the current DMD, the bug report stays 
> open.

I can understand why, I really do.

But, at the same time, I guess it could be a bit demoralizing you 
know?

Like, I don't even know who will be alive in 10 years. There's 
something symbolical about a decade somehow. If it takes so long 
for an issue to be looked at, maybe it's not really a big deal. 
And if it *is*, it's even worse of course, so I hope it's just 
that people are over reporting minor stuff.

On the other hand, how do you solve an issue if you're not 
allowed to see it (ie, your argument)? Well, that's a fair point 
of course!

Let's put it like this:
What *should* the limit be? 20 years? 25? 75?

Whatever the limit, I'm pretty sure that most reporters would 
like to see an issue fixed before the end of their (average) 
lives at least. I think that's a reasonable assumption.

It's kinda obvious when you push it to the "limit" that *some* 
kind of limit has to be put in place.

Maybe it's too easy to report an issue? I don't know.

The obvious solution is to get more people involved in D, I'm 
trying!

I advertise it to friends and co-workers, write on various sites, 
try to answer questions on Reddit, FB, Discord etc etc. But 
there's just so much one person can do..

I have no good idea what the optimal solution should be, but I 
bet *someone* out there has though about it. I hope so :)