Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

El 6/2/23 a las 11:26, Brian Thompson escribió:
> I understand that the usual way to close out bug reports is having the
> original author do it themselves.  What's the policy on closing bug reports
> that haven't had activity in over 6 months?

Let the maintainers handle their bugs.
Old bugs should not be closed just because they are "old".

For example, I have an open bug which is 26 years old:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5898

and I don't see any reason to close it.

Thanks.