Bug maintenance

[Martin Sebor]

On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote:
> As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the
> bugs for it.  There appear to be a number that have been fixed or
> overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still open.
>
> Is closing some of these old bugs of any value?
>
> If so, how do I pursue this?

There are nearly 10,000 still unresolved bugs in Bugzilla, almost
half of which are New, and a third Unconfirmed, so I'm sure any
effort to help reduce the number is of value and appreciated.

I can share with you my own approach to dealing with them (others
might have better suggestions).  In cases where the commit that
fixed a bug is known, I mention it in the comment closing the bug.
I also try to indicate the version in which the bug was fixed (if
I can determine it using the limited number of versions I have
built).  Otherwise, when a test doesn't already exist (finding
out whether or not one does can be tedious), I add one before
closing the bug will help avoid a regression.

Martin