I was reminded of this thread by Jan in another thread (thanks!). +1 to your plan with the three Tiers. I would only add that the ticket severity should play a role, too - issues marked as Critical should get more attention (there are a few dozen such issues at the moment).
Cheers, Andrzej > On 10 Jun 2026, at 10:13, Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I know there are different philosofies on such gardening. Some hate it, some >> love it, some don't care. > > I think I'm in the "don't care" category. Or at least, I'm not sure > how to feel about it. I tend to use JIRA to track my own work or read > about what others have been working on recently (via the mailing > list). I haven't seen "noise" being a big problem there, but I'm open > to folks having different usage patterns where there is more negative > impact. Was just fishing for a concrete example I guess :-p. I > appreciate the addtl detail! > > Consider me a +0. Agree with David's comment that it'd be great to > find an appropriate Resolution that'd make the "auto-closed for > staleness" easy to detect down the road. > > Best, > > Jason > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 8.5 years mean age. You can pick a random open JIRA issue for Solr and most >> likely you'll find that it is not open at all, it is something that is >> either not relevant anymore, fixed somewhere else or just an idea that >> stalled 5 years ago and is superceded by something else. >> >> Whether it is a problem depends on what you expect from an issue tracker and >> what you expect from a "state" field. >> Some might not care at all, and that's ok. I think this much cruft is a >> noise issue. And it is easy to deal with. >> I call it gardening. >> >> If we did not have stalebot for PRs, I'm sure there would have been 2000 >> open PRs instad of the current 281... I have been reminded a few times by >> the bot that I had some work that started to go stale, and I'm triggered to >> either bring it to completion or close it. I want to do the same with Github >> Issues once we (perhaps) migrate away from JIRA. >> >> I know there are different philosofies on such gardening. Some hate it, some >> love it, some don't care. >> >> Jan >> >>> 5. juni 2026 kl. 21:30 skrev Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]>: >>> >>> You mention the existing situation being untenable - can you expand on >>> that a bit please? Are the old, untouched JIRAs causing some sort of >>> problem? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
