How Does An Issue Get Into IDEABKL?

Hello opticyclic,

Please see http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/IDEADEV/Workingwithissue+tracker
for more information on IDEABKL.

I thought IDEABKL was mostly full of stuff left over from jira years
ago.
However, when I did a search on youtrack it turns out that there are
over 4000 issues in it.
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues?q=%23IDEABKL%23Unresolvedsort+b
y%3Acreateddesc+
and the most recent item was added just 3 days ago.

How does something get into the backlog so quickly? Is there any
attempt to clear out the backlog? (I guess not if new items are being
added)

Also, how do you go about choosing which items to fix?

Is there some process or do the developers just look for something
that peaks their interest?

Flex bugs seem to get the most fixes these days. Much more than ANT
issues (so I'm always grateful to see them!)

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
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