Is cleaning up old issues worthwhile?

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| I just want to second comments others have said about the value of this
| kind of activity. It is most certainly *not* annoying!

Indeed. Thank you for doing this.

Wherever possible, please consider adding a regression test.  That makes sure the bug *stays* fixed.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Richard
| Eisenberg
| Sent: 06 May 2019 04:05
| To: Kevin Buhr <buhr at asaurus.net>
| Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Is cleaning up old issues worthwhile?
| 
| I just want to second comments others have said about the value of this
| kind of activity. It is most certainly *not* annoying! If you're right and
| there is a migration issue, then it is indeed reasonable to stop and get
| feedback, but I'm (for one) comfortable having you close tickets that you
| cannot reproduce in a modern GHC -- as long as you're careful about
| checking this. (For example, perhaps an old ticket has some code that
| doesn't make sense with Applicative being a superclass of Monad. Before
| labeling the issue as unreproducible, it would be wise to update the
| example first.) The worst case scenario is that someone reopens.
| 
| Many thanks for this work!
| Richard
| 
| > On May 4, 2019, at 6:49 PM, Kevin Buhr <buhr at asaurus.net> wrote:
| >
| > Well, after going through a few of these, I realize that there's some
| relevant Trac metadata (specifically, "Resolution" fields of
| "ResolvedWorksForMe", "ResolvedFixed", etc.) for all of the ones I've
| found.  It looks like certain old bugs that were somehow "resolved" but
| not "closed" in the old system came over as open tickets in GitLab. This
| is maybe related to gitlab-migration issue #43.  So, I'll stop now.
| >
| > --
| > Kevin Buhr <buhr at asaurus.net>
| >
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