Bulk close: no activity for >2 years -> WONTFIX

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 01:18 -0700, harry wrote:
> 228 bugs were closed on Friday with "Bulk close: no activity for >2 years ->
> WONTFIX".
> 
> What was the idea behind his? Does the fact that nobody's tried to fix it in
> the last two years mean that it's no longer a valid candidate for
> development?

It's all explained on page two of your support contract.

More seriously, it's a recognition of the following three empirical
facts of software development:

a) bug creation happens faster than bug fixing on a growing software
project, so the number of open bugs increase
b) a bug tracker where bugs stay open regardless of interest is
eventually dominated by bugs no one wants to fix... and then developers
start ignoring the backlog entirely
c) if a bug is important, users will helpfully create newer duplicate
entries

(Expect the reaping process to be automated in the near future.)

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.