If we are going wholesale dumping issues (and I am not against that), I have a more radical suggestion... let's just move core to the ASF JIRA... with next to no issues needing migration it would be easy ;-)
On 20 January 2014 17:23, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > Really, it's more about dropping a nuclear bomb on JIRA. While trying to > sift through it this weekend it's clear to me it's less than ideal in there. > > There are issues that are 12 years old and while there might be some > useful information in there that we hand select, I think anything that is > older than 5 years we should just close as incomplete because with the > great deal of change that's happened with 3.x most of it isn't relevant and > if it is, and someone cares that much then it can be reopened with a > stand-alone working example of the problem. > > Now, as to the requirements for a stand-alone working example I think we > should enforce this because personally I'm not going to check out someone's > project, figure out how to interpret it in relation to the actual problem > in Maven and then create a project I can turn into an IT. I'm just not > going to do it generally. There might be exceptions but I don't want to > read a textual examples or try to figure out snippets of a production > project that can't be shared. In m2e we require a working example project > to even look at a problem and if the issue sits there for a year with a > working sample project we close it. > > Having an issue tracking system with 700 open issues is useless, so I > would like to do a mass purge. It shouldn't really get beyond 50 open > issues or it's just impossible to manage effectively. > > Not sure what anyone else thinks but our JIRA situation is just not > effective. I'm thinking anything over 5 years old that isn't assigned to a > core developer we just close as incomplete and then see what we're left > with. If anyone complains then we point them at doco (I'll write it) about > creating a stand-alone project because otherwise it become impossible. I > spent 8 hours over the weekend looking at issues trying to interpret what > someone was trying to say and I don't want to guess. If the user cares > enough they can make an example project. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will > elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come > and sit softly on your shoulder ... > > -- Thoreau > > > > > > > > >
