Colin, That's a worthwhile idea that could be easily applied to all bugs over n years old. One could start with n around 10, perhaps meaning everything against versions before 2.4.0. Care to spend some quality time in Bugzilla?
Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 27, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Possibly an alternative, used in Ubuntu for example, is when a version > goes out of support that any bugs against that version have a comment > added saying the version is out of support, saying that if the bug is > relevant to a later version then please to post a comment, and marking > the bug as needing info, so it will expire after a time if there is no > input, > > Colin > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 at 21:46, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> John, >> >> Is there perhaps a need to place maintenance limits on GnuCash release >> versions, i.e. at a specified time after release they become unsupported, >> as is bugs and all. This is more than likely what actually happens in >> practice given limited skilled developer time. As bug reports are often tied >> to a specific version, bugs could then be removed from bugzilla when the >> version they apply to becomes unsupported. Most bugs are not show stoppers >> and those that are or are particularly inconvenient are usually fixed fairly >> quickly after release. >> >> Enhancement requests could possibly have a longer lifetime but perhaps there >> is a need for expiry on those as well. E.g. if they didn't make it into the >> next major release and you really need that feature you raise the issue >> again (or work on it yourself). >> >> David Cousens >> >> >> >> ----- >> David Cousens >> -- >> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
