I closed a very old bug!

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 02:45:06PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 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.
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It's not hard to setup prebaked bugzilla queries that return very old
bugs, sorted by various criteria.  Currently, I've setup for myself a
bunch of prebaked queries named "1-2yo bugs", "2-10yo bugs", "last 6
months", etc..  Finding old bugs are just 1 click away.

Many old bugs are non-trivial to fix, though (the easy ones have already
been fixed, obviously). Like #340, which has a very long list of
dependencies, most of which have been closed but the remainder of which
are not so simple to fix.


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