Bug maintenance

[David Wohlferd]

On 4/28/2016 9:41 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> 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.

That's exactly what prompted me to ask.  There's such a vast number of 
them, it's hard to believe that 9 year old bugs are still of interest.

> 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.

I'll see what I can do.

dw