re-enable bug expiry?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> Launchpad has a feature where bugs left in the 'incomplete' state for
> 60 days are marked expired. <https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/Expiry>
> has the rationale.  We have this off.  I wonder if we should turn it
> back on?
> 
> At the moment we have 158 incomplete bugs out of 1793 open bugs in
> total.  (So it's not that big of a percentage.)  However, I think we
> generally do only set things to incomplete when it's really not
> feasible to make progress on them without more information.  So just
> killing them may help clean things up, or in some cases the expiry
> message may remind people to provide the data.
> 
> I think the main downside is that sometimes these bugs don't have
> really useful information, but if a dupe later comes in they would add
> a small amount of information.  But you can still find them.
> 
> Alternatively we could implement this manually by just killing old
> incomplete bugs when we see them.  This seems to happen now.
> 

I think it would be fine to expire incomplete bugs.

John
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