> I’m certainly not suggesting you go out and delete your entire backlog.<p>Why not? As a consultant, this is one of the things that I do whenever I roll onto a long-standing project that's been unmaintained for more than a few months. Bugs reported in February of 2017? Should I be fixing that? Prioritising it?<p>Nope. Nope nope nope. Archive it all, and solicit new bug reports & feature requests.