bug archiving policy

[Boruch Baum]

I've been having an awful time trying to update a simple bugfix patch to
a recent bug report[1]. Although the bug report was initially submitted
23 July 2020, it has since been summarily closed, *archived* (08
October), unarchived upon my protest (in order to submit the original
patch (10 October), never re-opened, and *archived* a second time (08
November). On 17 November, I tried to have the bug unarchived a second
time in order to make a small modification to the patch[2], which led
eventually to a very constructive discussion, but the bug report was
never unarchived, and none of the other constructive comments in the
thread seem to have been taken up.

At this point, I'm still primarily asking for the specific bug to be
unarchived so the update can be posted, but I also want to bring the
particular incident to the members of this list for review, and also to
bring to attention of the members of this list the constructive comments
that eventually ensued in the prior discussion thread[2].

It shouldn't be so hard to make a five-byte alteration to a patch.

I'm not a subscriber to the list, so I need to be cc'ed to ensure I
remain in the loop in a timely fashion; otherwise, I can check the
online devel-list history[3].

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42484
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2020-11/msg00365.html
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/

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