I have completely the opposite opinion! Any bug in the bug tracker hanging around "in a few years" should* be closed. Comments should* persist while the source code issue to which they refer remains remarkable.
*it's fun issuing such rulings.
*it's fun issuing such rulings.
I agree that closing bugs you don't intend to act on soon is reasonable; I disagree that this makes it not worthwhile to have filed it.
FWIW I also agree that todos specifically about certain lines of code, i.e. todos that will become irrelevant if the code is rewritten at all, should be in code. The limit of that is probably roughly "TODO return the right error subclass". Even "TODO pass more information into this function" is probably past that limit, since it affects at least two spots in the code.
Otherwise issue tracker has thousands of items that the team will never realistically work on.