Hi Simon, Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Maxim, > > For reference [1]. > > On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 at 18:14, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On a related note sometimes we have WIP kind of work that stays on our >> tracker with deeper questions / problems to solve, and I don't think >> it's fair for our reviewers to have these linger on for years on the >> tracker (they take a lot of time to get familiar with, and would then >> require quit more investment to be completed, sometimes with the >> original submitter no longer active in the discussion) -- I think for >> these situations it's fair to close it. An interested person can >> hopefully find these in the archives and resume work on it if they are >> so inclined. > > I am more or less agree. Especially for keeping the tracker > healthy. However, I am missing how “an interested person can hopefully > find these in the archives and resume work on it if they are so > inclined.“ > > Maybe we could have another usertags for tagging this case or another > tag. Else, it appears to me unpractical to find these in the archives. > Well, I personally do not even know how or where to start for finding > these. > > Exercise: find the patches that someone pinged their status from the 10 > Years of Guix event and another person then closed. :-) > > Found it? If no, > > Hint 1: someone was me. ;-) > > Found it? If no, > > Hint 2: another person was you. ;-) > > Found it? If no, > > Hint 3: it was about elasticsearch. > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=elasticsearch > > Found it? If no, > > Hint 4: tag ’moreinfo’. > > Well, if just marked as done, then it appears to me unpractical to find > these in the archives. If you want to package elasticsearch, know it's not in the Guix as we speak, and see it as the first item when browsing https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=elasticsearch, I have some hope that someone could find it. Not to mention search engines, which are also good at this. That said, I get your point. Perhaps a 'rejected' user tag would be useful? I doubt most users would know to use them though... but maybe if it's exposed via Mumi it could be helpful. -- Thanks, Maxim