Oh yes, very good point Jeff.
In fact, while we are at it, we might as well start using what I plan to add to bug-tracker: automatic closing of bugs.
I will write a script that, through the cvs log, scans for certain things and automatically closes the bug. I plan to use the Debian bug tracking system's syntax (for consistency, and they already wrote the regexp's 😊).
So if you commit something and include something like: "(closes #1234567)" (or anything matched by the regxep /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+)*/ig) where 1234567 is the bug id on bug-tracker, than that bug will be closed, and your commit log will be used as comments.
I believe that should take care of much of the problem of many bugs never being closed.
-Roberto
