on closing "old" and "inactive" bug reports

[Matthias Klose]

Just seen a bunch of bug reports closed due to being "to old" or 
"inactivity".

While I understand that a bug database with less open bug reports looks 
nicer, I don't see any value in doing so. There seem to be a lot of 
people doing bug "triaging" without even trying to reproduce a problem. 
Problems don't go away with time when nothing is done to fix these, and 
the next bug submitter doesn't find a bug and files it again.

It seems we need some rules to separate the karma addicts from real bug 
triagers, i.e.

- don't close bug reports assigned to people (without testing or asking)
- don't close confirmed bug reports
- "old" or "inactive" should not be closed; if we really want to do 
this, we could
  surely do this automatically.

Not so amused this morning

  Matthias