Hi Alexandre,
Sounds good to me, we can try this approach and see if it fit in the future.
regards,
François
Le 04/02/2026 à 11:44, Alexandre Dutra a écrit :
Hi all,
I'm open to either approach, but I wanted to explain why having this
job running might not be such a big deal:
Since many community contributors subscribe to all Polaris
notifications, any stale issue notification from the CI job will be
received by many people. This provides us with an opportunity to
evaluate whether an issue should be reopened or not.
In fact, we just saw this in action: the job flagged this issue [1] as
stale 8 hours ago, and Robert immediately unflagged it :-)
While frequently unflagging issues could become a burden, for the time
being, the effort required seems minimal.
Just my 2 cents.
Thanks,
Alex
[1]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/3086#issuecomment-3844852237
On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM Francois Papon
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am agree with JB, closing PR automatically after 14 days can be a
little agressive and whitout review, the users will not understand why.
Closing a PR without answer activity after a delay from the user make
more sense to me.
regards,
François
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Le 04/02/2026 à 09:33, Jean-Baptiste Onofré a écrit :
Hi Alex,
Thanks for starting this discussion!
While I am comfortable with automatically closing PRs (as the author can
always comment to keep them open), I don't believe we should automatically
close issues. Issues are typically opened for a good reason and should be
reviewed, reproduced, and investigated. I prefer having reviewers manually
close issues when appropriate.
Regards,
JB
On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM Alexandre Dutra <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi team,
A recent PR [1] fixed a misconfiguration that had prevented the
automatic closing of stale issues from working in Polaris. While this
feature seems to have been intended from the start, its re-enablement
raises a fundamental question: should we be closing stale issues
automatically?
Arguments for closing include:
- It helps to clear out issues that are no longer being actively
worked on or are irrelevant.
- The system provides a 14-day grace period before an issue is closed,
giving anyone the chance to comment and keep the issue open.
Arguments against closing include:
- An issue might still be valid even if the original reporter has
become inactive. Closing it could lead to losing track of important,
unresolved problems.
What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Alex
[1]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/3636
