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Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

by janvdberg 6y ago

gostsamo 6y ago
Most likely there is a bug filed somewhere that asks for removing most of the parentheses from LISP. :)
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  In a way, that's how we got Dylan.
trothamel 6y ago
It's in a different field, and I'm being very tongue-in-cheek - but the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution has it beat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Revival_of_interest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...
- mch82 6y ago
  Cool link
gerdesj 6y ago
I think Open Office and Libre Office have some contenders back from Star Office days. I still use LO daily though.
kryptiskt 6y ago
Last month there was a patch for a 35-year old bug in patch: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patc...
throrthaway 6y ago
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse
- JdeBP 6y ago
  It has been 21 years since people asked to have SRV DNS resource record support in Mozilla. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html
  - throrthaway 6y ago
    Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management
    - tedunangst 6y ago
      The bug is closed. What more do you expect project management to do?
  - teddyh 6y ago
    I’m thinking that they might implement HTTPS and SVCB records, once standardized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01
tzs 6y ago
If it does have that title, there are other bugs that are almost as old in Thunderbird and still open, so it might not hold the record for long if someone gets around to fixing any of those. For example, bug 41929 [1] is only 6 months younger. Briefly, you cannot have two different IMAP accounts in Thunderbird that have the same username and host but different ports. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929

Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

gostsamo 6y ago

Most likely there is a bug filed somewhere that asks for removing most of the parentheses from LISP. :)

Jtsummers 6y ago
In a way, that's how we got Dylan.

trothamel 6y ago

It's in a different field, and I'm being very tongue-in-cheek - but the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution has it beat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Revival_of_interest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...

mch82 6y ago
Cool link

gerdesj 6y ago

I think Open Office and Libre Office have some contenders back from Star Office days. I still use LO daily though.

kryptiskt 6y ago

Last month there was a patch for a 35-year old bug in patch: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patc...

throrthaway 6y ago

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse

JdeBP 6y ago
It has been 21 years since people asked to have SRV DNS resource record support in Mozilla. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html
- throrthaway 6y ago
  Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management
  - tedunangst 6y ago
    The bug is closed. What more do you expect project management to do?
- teddyh 6y ago
  I’m thinking that they might implement HTTPS and SVCB records, once standardized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01

tzs 6y ago

If it does have that title, there are other bugs that are almost as old in Thunderbird and still open, so it might not hold the record for long if someone gets around to fixing any of those. For example, bug 41929 [1] is only 6 months younger. Briefly, you cannot have two different IMAP accounts in Thunderbird that have the same username and host but different ports. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929