Hi, as a Nix user: I think that it's a *very* *very* bad idea to auto-close issues after 14 days. Usually, if I find a bug, I report it. If my bugreport then gets auto-closed after a few days/weeks, it would feel like (a) the maintainers simply don't care about bugs (and prefer to ignore bugs rather than fixing them), and (b) that bugreports are undesirable.
> All the *real* issues will stay active, since people will reopen them. No. As a "normal user", I probably wouldn't ever reopen a bug. ("I have submitted a bug; if it was closed, the maintainers probably solved it or closed it for a good reason.", or "I have submitted a bug. Why should I tell them 14 days later that the bug still exists? Do they think bugs magically disappear? WTF?") As a more experienced user, I *might* re-open it once, but when it's auto-closed again, I would be very annoyed, wouldn't report any more bugs (since obviously the maintainers don't care), and probably go away (since obviously the maintainers don't care about bugs; and I don't want to use software where the maintainers don't care about bugs). This is NOT, what NixOS needs (at least in my opinion). In my opinion, auto-closing would be ok for: - bugs which cannot be reproduced easily and need more information, but the submitter does not submit this information, and - bugs about packages which are no longer in Nix All other bugreport-handling-problems should be solved by filtering, searching or tagging bugreports, but not by (auto-)closing them. just my 0.02ct Roland _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev