The maximum age of a bug in a bug tracker is not really a meaningful metric. All software has bugs, and all large, widely used software has some problems or limitations that no-one is working on. You can close those issues to tidy things up, but that's also a good way to annoy people.

So the only conclusion you can really draw from "one bug was 11 years old" is that they had been using that issue tracker for at least 11 years.

It was a persistent and substantial bug, people jokingly suggested getting it a birthday cake because it was so neglected.

Care to tell us which one it is?

Probably the infamous "thumbnails in file picker" bug that is a meme on 4chan's /g/:

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&

But that's not a bug. It's a feature request

Yes, I'm curious on this too.

The current bug tracker has 40 pages worth of bugs that are more than 11 years old. The oldest one is an 18 year old GIMP bug.

That bug is going to go to college soon.

> The current bug tracker has 40 pages worth of bugs that are more than 11 years old.

No, it does't. The bug tracker might list over 40 pages of reports that were filed over 11 years ago, but that doesn't mean each entry represents a an actual bug.