Re: debbugs.gnu.org: is it user-centric or developer-centric?

[Glenn Morris]

Ivan Shmakov wrote:

>       debbugs.gnu.org? Specifically, per my prior experience with the
>       Debian BTS, the issues which the developers do not consider
>       worth fixing, but which are otherwise valid, are tagged
>       'wontfix', but /not/ closed.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00779.html

    [...] if the bug isn't open to discussion, I close it. I think
    that's fairly common across Debian. If it's tagged wontfix but still
    open, that generally means one of two things: either it's still open
    for discussion, but the maintainers are indicating their current
    thinking on it, or it's a commonly-reported false positive (from the
    maintainer's perspective) and they're leaving it open so that people
    will see it in the bug list and see that someone else already
    reported it.

Seems like a good summary to me.

We have 1000s of bugs. Closing ones that are never going to go anywhere
is essential.