on closing "old" and "inactive" bug reports

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:31:37AM -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> That was me last night.  It occurred to me that it might not be a bad idea.  
> That it might even be useful.  The next step wasn't to start closing bugs.  I 
> asked about it on #ubuntu-devel.  It was briefly discussed, then I was 
> advised to ask sfllaw, who promptly appeared.  It was discussed some more, 
> and the idea received the blessing of the guy I was asked to ask, so I began.  

It would benefit this discussion if you would post a transcript of your
earlier exchange on IRC.

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 - mdz