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The maximum age of a bug in a bug tracker is not really a meaningful metric. All software has bugs, and all large, widely used software has some problems or lim

The maximum age of a bug in a bug tracker is not really a meaningful metric. All software has bugs, and all large, widely used software has some problems or limitations that no-one is working on. You can close those issues to tidy things up, but that's also a good way to annoy people. So the only conclusion you can really draw from "one bug was 11 years old" is that they had been using that issue tracker for at least 11 years.

paulie_a 8y ago
It was a persistent and substantial bug, people jokingly suggested getting it a birthday cake because it was so neglected.
- anonymouz 8y ago
  Care to tell us which one it is?
  - djsumdog 8y ago
    Yes, I'm curious on this too.
  - symlinkk 8y ago
    Probably the infamous "thumbnails in file picker" bug that is a meme on 4chan's /g/: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154& https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&
    - toefraz 8y ago
      But that's not a bug. It's a feature request
      - deleted 8y ago
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