[Development] Error database cleaning continues

[Ilya Fedin]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:45:18 +0200
Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:

> The reasons for the lack of activity on the bugtracker are IMNSHO 
> completely independent from the validity of the issue. They're more
> to be found in the general lack of upstream response to these bugs
> (or willingness to fix them, given again, widgets are "done"); and/or
> in the general huge disengagement of the community from Qt, which is
> now seen first and foremost as a commercial product, so why should
> one spend the effort to improve it (... notice how this very email
> thread was sent on the _wrong_ mailing list -- not the one(s) for the
> users of Qt; nor it was cross-posted to Qt's blog, newsletters and
> other announcements); and/or in the fact that the quality of web
> searches has plummeted in the last few years, so people hitting a bug
> don't even see that there is a bug report opened about their issue;
> and so on.

Even if one spends the effort to improve it, the attempt gets ignored
unless it's some critical issue. If the attempt was a bug report, it
gets a priority and everyone forgets about it. If it was a patch in
gerrit, no one will review it in months and years even though you added
the module maaintainer from the change creation.