In response to Bram Schoenmaker's post about closing all bugs in KDE's Bugzilla at the release of KDE 4.0.


It is definitely a risky move, and many people will oppose it, but it is a step that could bring bug tracking back to order.
As a user, I'm personally afraid of going anywhere near Bugzilla, and it is mainly because of the issue you mentioned, the amount of open bugs is certainly intimidating, specially to someone who is new to the world of software development.

This would not only create an advantage towards the developers who would be able to sort things better, but to the users who can find if their bug would just be a duplicate with more ease. I believe that a high percentage of the bugs is probably outdated for the KDE 3 codebase even.

Also, many people are opposing this because of the KDE 3 bugs listed, KDE 3 will benefit from this as well. If the current bugs are erased, the people who maintain KDE 3 will be able to see the bugs that get reported again more clearly. If the bugs are not posted again, it it most likely that they are either already solved, unimportant, or specific to something that's been updated or outdated and thus the change fixed the issue.

All of KDE 4 has so far been about taking risks. This is a risk that will most likely benefit the community.