Steve Grubb said the following on 09/24/2008 04:13 AM Pacific Time:
I also wonder what is the point of this exercise? A bug in NEW that is a year old is one thing, a bug that is in NEW for 1 day is another. It would seem that bugs over a certain age are really a problem that is "stuck" and may need intervention. But, its been my experience that getting bugs from NEEDINFO back to ASSIGNED or MODIFIED to CLOSED are where the problems are.
I guess from a triage perspective we're trying to go through the bugs that haven't been looked at yet to see if we can help prod them along, request more information, add them to a blocker list, or change them to the correct component.
John