Bug triage, or spam?

[Jesse Allen]

On 5/31/07, Tom Spear <speeddymon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Remember that this is only my opinion. Other people handle things a
> > little different. It is probably true that the two recent bugs you
> > mentioned I would have closed, but it was only resolved. It's just how
> > it was handled. If you want to close bugs that are clearly done with
> > like that, it's fine by me. And I do close bug reports with other
> > status too, if it's one I really don't want to see again.
> >
> > If it's clear why you are closing bugs, it's all fine by me, whatever it is.
> Just to clarify my reasoning, because I just now thought about the
> _real_ reasoning lol, I often look thru lists of bugs that are
> resolved as fixed and (although i havent done it in a few years, i was
> going to start again), post a message to ask if the reporter can
> confirm if it is fixed.  So I was closing bugs that were
> invalid/abandoned/dupe/worksforme so that they wouldnt show in the
> lists of resolved bugs, so its less I have to sort thru....
>

Bug triage is a good idea so that stuff like this gets cleaned up. I'm
not sure what everyone wants though. I guess you can figure that out
:P