Re: [boost] Bug list status

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-29 13:12:45

At 5:05 PM -0700 12/22/05, Jeff Garland wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:58:12 -0800, Marshall Clow wrote
>
>
>  > If you think that a bug has been assigned incorrectly, please let me
>  > know.
>  >
>  > Bug counts per assignee:
>  >
>  > Mike Glassford		13
>  > Doug Gregor		 8
>  > Stephen Cleary (shammah)	 6
[snip]
>  >
>  > Six weeks ago:	93 open bugs
>  > Five weeks ago:	95 open bugs
>>  Four weeks ago:	77 open bugs.
>>  Three weeks ago:	70 open bugs.
>>  Two week ago:	64 open bugs
>>  One week ago:	65 open bugs
>>  Today:		64 open bugs
>>
>>  Now that 1.33.1 has been released, let's get these bugs cleaned up...
>>  Thank you for your cooperation!
>
>
>Hi Marshall -
>
>Thx for keeping this up.  I have a question, though.  I'm wondering if Mike
>Glassford or Stephen Cleary (2 of the top 3) are really going to ever address
>their bugs in the near future?  My guess is no.  Perhaps we should consider
>closing some of these out as 'will not be fixed -- no active maintainer'?

Jeff -
I think that closing these is the wrong thing to do.

Rather, we should find someone who is interested in maintaining those 
libraries,
or possibly, remove them from boost - since they contain bugs and are 
no longer maintained.
[ My 2c, obviously. ]

>Taking it from another angle, by my count we have the following historical
>breakdown:
>
>Opened in 2002 - 9
>Opened in 2003 - 3
>Opened in 2004 - 12
>Opened in 2005 - 37
>
>Seems to me that the 24 issues that are now over a year old really should be
>evaluated for validaty or closed as unlikely to ever be fixed.  Thoughts?

I agree that they should be evaluated for validity. I'll bet that a 
lot of them have been fixed; since I started nagging people, many 
bugs have been closed with "oh yeah - that was fixed in 1.32" type 
comments. If they're still valid bugs, and are on supported 
platforms, then they should be remain open until they are fixed.
-- 
-- Marshall
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