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I have to agree. There is nothing more demotivating for me than documenting a bug thoroughly, only to have it returned to me two months later as part of a bulk

I have to agree. There is nothing more demotivating for me than documenting a bug thoroughly, only to have it returned to me two months later as part of a bulk 'we didn't get to this in time' cleanup. Issues for those teams usually 'best effort' isolation going forward, which compounds the issue.

pixl97 6y ago
A bug left alone long enough grows from an child bug to an adult bug. You're still caring, feeding, and maintaining that bug the entire time.
- mrec 6y ago
  I think the oldest bug I've raised that's still open is this Webkit one from 2008 [1]. It still gets plaintive comments from various people every few years. A few more and it'll be going off to college. [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261
  - edoceo 6y ago
    > We are fixing in Blink (c2103)
    - mrec 6y ago
      That's no help for Safari. Personally I haven't needed to care about Safari in half a decade, but presumably others still do.
greggman3 6y ago
And yet this is what several open source projects do, including VSCode. They've even automated the process. If there's no action on a bug for X amount of time it's auto-closed.
Too 6y ago
Possibly worse is those small bugs that would just take a few hours to fix but never get prioritized, yet they still get pulled up for discussion week after week during whole team grooming-meetings. "what is this bug again?" Accumulating a total of more admin-time than solution time.