Reducing our core apps’ software inventory

In my free time, I try to help other open source projects get rid of accumulated weight from the years. At GUADEC, I told the Epiphany devs that the 3.x series (with its new design direction/vision and the gradually improving Webkit backend) would be the perfect opportunity to close massive amounts of old bug reports. Indeed, there were nearly a thousand of them open. This week-end, I closed about 150 of them. I’m not even nearly done; this will take time and patience, especially since I want to do the same thing with Empathy, which also expressed interest in a radical round of cleanup. What I’d like to convince you of is the need to reduce our “excess inventory”. Read on.

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