I’m warming up to this +1 Maybe phase one should exclude bugs. On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 9:36 AM Andrzej Białecki <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 stalled 5 years ago and is superceded by something else.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] > >
