On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 19:44 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
From a practical point of view, as a bug reporter, when I get mass notifications to update scores of bugs that were opened years ago, and that the people owning the component never bothered to respond on (even to confirm they were alive), I just /dev/null the result and never look at it again.
Sometimes people ask me why I let bugs get autoclosed when they hit the same problems months later, but really, I don't see the point of spending hours to re-test reports, when no one could spend minutes to ask for (human) confirmation.
I think that is fine. It's not your responsibility to retest a bug you no longer care about. If someone else cares and retests, they ideally would be able to reopen it, but Bugzilla currently doesn't allow that ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573535 ). If no one cares, the bug may not be worth fixing.