If there are 1000+ open issues, it's hard to know what to prioritise. If inactive issues get closed, it at least helps cut down on things which may no longer be relevant (and if they are, someone finds the closed issue, comments in it, and it opens again).
On 22 July 2016 at 09:57, Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> wrote: > What does the number 0 bring us if there are in reality still hundreds of > issues? > > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, 8:06 a.m. Wout Mertens, <wout.mert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We have 1238 open issues and 286 open PRs. >> >> That is just too much to reason about. >> >> How about using something like https://github.com/twbs/no-carrier which >> auto-closes after 14 days of inactivity, and reopens on a new comment? >> >> I'm sure that if we have close to 0 open issues/PRs, there will be a >> greater incentive to bring that number to 0… >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Michael Walker (http://www.barrucadu.co.uk) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
