Close all [most] SPARC PRs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:47:40 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> 
> Attach that message in a change from "open" -> "feedback".
> Wait 30 days.
> 
> About 80% of cases, nothing happens for 30 days.  Then close the PR,
> with another little note: "I haven't heard anything for 30 days.
> I am closing the PR.  If you have problems with a more recent version
> of gdb, please file another PR."
> 
> About 15% of cases, the original submitter writes back sooner and
> confirms that the original bug is closed.  Then close the PR.
> 
> About 5% of cases, the original submitter says something which indicates
> that we shouldn't close the PR.
> 
> Mark K already did a 30-day routine on a bunch of Solaris PR's,
> and the 30 days ran out, and he closed the PR's.
> 
> Anyways, that's how I like to do it.

I really like this procedure.  Blindly closing the PRs should not be
our first choice if we can do better, and what Michael suggests _is_,
IMHO, better.