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[platform-ui-dev] Automatically closing outdated bugs

Hi,

We have currently 5887 Bug in platform UI. I see the following problems with that:

1.) Lots of the reported problems may have been solved in the past
2.) Lots of the reported problems are not relevant any more
3.) Interested contributors have no way of weaving out 1.) or 2.)
4.) New bug reporters have no way to review them which leads to a lot of new bugs which report the same problem as an existing bug
5.) Committers cannot review this amount of bugs and critical or easy fixes are lost in this amount of bugs

So in the end this huge amount of bugs leads to a situation in which no one still looks at the old bugs. I

I therefore suggest that we establish the following guideline: Bug which have not been changed within the last 2 years are closed automatically. We could also filter out bugs which contain certain keywords. 

The closing comment should be similar to the following:

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This bug has not received any update within the last two years. Therefore we mark that bug as WORKSFORME. If the reported problem still exists, please reopen this bug.
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I opened  Bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430807 to discuss that.

Best regards, Lars

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