On 22-07-2016 14:18:55, Damien Cassou wrote: > Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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 agree with you about auto-closing old issues but I think 14 days is > way too short. For me, an issue must be automatically closed > > - if nobody cares enough to say either that he is impacted too or is > still impacted > > - if nobody cares enough to fix the issue > > There is not enough man power for nixpkgs to be bug free. Automatically > closing issues means open issues are the ones people care about. > Moreover, the tools auto-closing issues must warn a few days before > closing the issue to raise awareness of the open issues. > > One day I closed an issue because nobody cared for months (even I didn't > care enough even though I reported it). Someone reopened it saying that > lack of care was not a reason to close an issue and someone else fixed > the issue the same day. So, closing can even encourage fixing :-). >
I agree with you. I wouldn't draw the line at 14 days, it is way to short. We have sometimes unstable beeing not updated for up to 4 weeks... and I guess that should also be the line. let it be 28 days, reporting after 25 days that the issue will be closed and another 3 until it is closed, maybe. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Proudly sent with mutt. Happily signed with gnupg.
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