There are even older enhancement requests that are still valid - e.g. *Bug 476114.* <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476114>
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:06 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > 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 > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
