[Qgis-developer] Proposal: Auto-aging of bugs

[Magnus Homann]

I propose we introduce auto-aging of bugs.

Reason:
The number of old bugs are overwhelming, and many of the old ones are 
not valid anymore. A large number of invalid bugs are NOT good for 
moreale or for bug fixing process.

Solution:
If a bug makred 'awaiting user input' does not get updated in 30 days, 
all people that have contributed to the bug gets a warning email. This
process is repeated two weeks later, but all developers of QGID is 
included in thois email. If nothinh happens in one week, the bug gets 
closed.

Outcome:
The Trac system will get rid of bugs that the bug reporter is not 
interested in verifying or clarifying.

If we don't:
Trac system wii be full of bugs that canät be closed, becasue we canät 
verify if the bugs are solved or not.


I belive this can be done technically. The time limits can be discussed.

Not many bugs are marked awating user interaction, but if thsi gets 
implemented I propose that we go thorugh old bugs from 0.8.1  and ask if 
the same applies top 0.9.1 (crashes etc), and set the bug as 'awaiting 
user input'.

Magnus