[RFC] Closing of all remaining Bugzilla PRs against powerpcspe

[Segher Boessenkool]

Hi,

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:39:36PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/9/20 12:31 PM, Arseny Solokha wrote:
> > I'd also like to nominate the following two:
> > 
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52927
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60158
> > 
> > which I also cannot close myself. There won't be any further revisions of this
> > list by me.
> 
> They affect given older versions, so if you just close them, that would imply
> that the bug in question in gcc-4.5.3 has been dealt with  - which I assume
> is not the case.

We do not usually leave bugs not present in any release branches open.

> So, again, I'm not sure what you gain by closing these bugs. Having them marked
> as open means that someone has observed the issue with a certain gcc version
> and target.

They will be marked RESOLVED WONTFIX.  It means we (the GCC community)
have decided what we will do here, and we decided to not fix this.

> Moving it to "closed" just expresses that some people don't care about this
> bug anymore. But it doesn't change the fact that the bug still exists.

1) We do not use the CLOSED state at all; 2) The bugs do still exist,
and the BZs as well, no problem there; 3) Bug state never says what
some people think about the bug.

> The only thing you gain by closing such bugs is that you are reducing the
> number of open bug reports and you can somehow claim you fixed a bug.

I can't speak for Arseny of course, but the reason *I* want this is to
no longer see all those powerpcspe BZs in my powerpc queries -- nothing
ever changes to them, so it's just pointless distraction.


Segher