Re: Offer to clean up (very) old Tracker issues

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-09-08 01:25 AM, Peekay Ex wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had a brief conversation with Graham who agreed in principle and
> asked me to send a mail to dev regarding 'going through' and 'cleaning
> up' old tracker issues.
>
> At the moment we have 580-something tracker issues of which some
> haven't been 'touched' for a very long time, there are also items with
> 'owners' who no longer actively (as far as I can tell) work on
> LilyPond anymore.
>
> My intention at first is to
>
> 1) Remove erroneous 'Owner' and 'Status' labels (and CC if appropriate).
>
> and
>
> 2) For those 'issues' that I understand see if the issue still applies
> to the current (un)stable release (e.g. Glyph X collides with Glyph Y
> when I xxxxx in version 2.really.old)
>
> However this will probably generate a fair few auto-emails and I don't
> want to step on anyone else's toes such as other tracker-sniffers
> (Messrs Campbell and O. Redchuk). So I am running this pass the 'dev'
> group for any other additional suggestions (such as other labels I
> could remove/apply, how far forward I should go etc) or disagreements
> and this would be a bad idea.
>
> Thanks.


Good man yourself, Peekay!  That backlog had been weighing a bit on my 
mind, too.  Perhaps "Abandoned" should mean "Closed".  BTW, you look 
rather familiar; any relation to the Exes in the Lowe Country?

Cheers,
Colin

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