There's an idiot mass-closing old unfixed bugs

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

Brian Murray:
 > I think bug triagers should make and effort to recreate the bug
 > report and if there is insufficient information then proceed down the
 > Incomplete path.

I would rather leave old reports as they are, and work only on bugs 
tagged as affecting current releases. If the bug is still relevant users 
and testers will tag it as such themselves.

If you want to make sure a software still works, you are better done by 
testing it yourself without reading any old report. That is much faster 
and likely as effective.