On Wed, 2026-10-21 at 15:00 +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > Hi Tomas > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 01:22:46PM +0200, Tomas Härdin via ffmpeg- > devel wrote: > > On Wed, 2026-10-21 at 00:09 +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg- > > devel > > wrote: > > > Also fairy today gained the ability to close PRs and Issues > > > > > > First issue she has closed: > > > https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24564 > > > > > > ATM closing tickets still requires human approval, but i will > > > likely > > > soon remove that latency as i expect her to be able to do that > > > reliably > > > > A fancy Markov chain is not a person > > > > If we're going to be automatically closing tickets, why are we > > delegating that to a statistical model, whose behavior is > > fundamentally > > random? > > We have >500 open tickets and not enough volunteers to review them > all manually. > That's why we're using Fairy to help with this.
You could just let them remain open. Having thought a bit about it, I'm leaning towards what Rémi said. There's no reason to close tickets. What we could do is ping the creator of old tickets once per year asking if the issue still exists and if not that they can close the ticket if they feel like it. Tickets are also fertile ground for GSoC. We could ask students to take a look at a couple of them. If we close them prematurely then there's fewer to choose from. > Would you be willing to help review and merge or close some of these > tickets by hand? That would be very much appreciated! I don't appreciate this kind of snark. I am looking at MXF tickets and PRs at the moment since that is about what I have time to look at. > PS: you need to enable 2FA on your forgejo account (and then ping me) > to be able to close/merge tickets I'll see what I can do. I have been meaning to improve my OTP setup anyway AI winter can't come soon enough ☃️ /Tomas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
