[racket-dev] Responding to old bug reports

In my role as bug czar, I've been trying to work through the backlog
of old unexamined bugs.  Unfortunately, many of them (a) have very
little information and (b) are from a long time ago.  A good example
is this one: http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9481

There are a few options here:
1. Close old (how old?) bugs that don't have enough information to
triage/reproduce.
2. Put them in the "feedback" state, with a general request for more
information.
3. Attempt to guess at what component this belongs to, and assign it that way.
4. Leave it in the current state.

I think 3 and 4 are both unacceptable. I'm leaning toward 2.  The
major drawback of 2 vs 1 is that we accumulate lots of bugs that
nothing will ever happen with. The major drawback of 1 is that we're
saying to someone who took the time to report a bug "we didn't care
about this bug at the time, so now we're closing it".

Thoughts?
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu