Hi all, This thread complements the ongoing discussion about migrating to GitHub Issues, but is worth pursuing regardless of how that ends.
I have raised the idea of a major JIRA cleanup several times before. The usual pushback is that important work or still-reproducible bugs would be lost forever. I understand the concern, but I think the current situation has become untenable: the median age of an open JIRA is 8.4 years. That number does not reflect what anyone is actually working on — it reflects years of accumulated noise that makes the tracker harder to navigate for everyone. I used an LLM to analyse all 4,093 currently open issues and put together a short report. It took about five minutes and surfaces some useful data. The full report is here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/81fe75ce-e387-4b88-81fb-d4fc8b90a1a9 A few highlights from the data: - 84% of open issues have not been touched in over 2 years - 34% have zero comments — filed and never discussed - 70% have no assignee Select graphs are included below (if they don't make it through the list, see HTML link above) The report suggests a three-tier approach: * Tier 1 — Close now (~1,200 issues): Zero comments AND no update in 3+ years. Bulk-close with a label such as "housekeeping-2026" so nothing is permanently lost. * Tier 2 — Triage with LLM assistance (~2,200 issues): No update in 2+ years, possibly some comments. Review in batches and close obvious candidates with the same label. * Tier 3 — Keep and triage properly (~700 issues): Updated within the last 2 years, or has votes or active comments. These deserve real attention. Does the community agree that something needs to be done? I am happy to help coordinate the effort if there is appetite for it. Jan
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