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PR and issue list purging? #751
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You are right. Periodically I go through the open issues and ping people. I normally hope the original reporter will close them when happy, but many reporters don't comment again once their issue is resolved. The other problem is many github issues are reported in the wrong places. Feel free to comment on issues you feel should be purged and I'll close them if I agree (which I imagine I will). I'll endeavour to purge more often (it usually happens when I've got a slow background task to work on, like git bisecting to find a regression). |
In my experience most people opening issues, don't close them when they are resolved.
This leaves a long issue list with irrelevant information, and quite impossible to see the outstanding issues with the current/next kernels.
In my own projects I regularly close issues older than 2 months, unless I know they are still valid.
I use this message:
This keeps the list short which makes it easy to get a view of outstanding issues.
Could we do something like that for this repo as well?
I think maybe PR's can be treated much the same. If there's silence for 2 months, it won't be pulled, will it?
I know there are different views on who 'owns' the issue, and some might feel personally offended if the PR/issue is closed on them.
If we can come up with a happy standard closing phrase, I think this should be less of a problem.
Let the phrase include that it's possible to reopen, and I presume we won't get many hard feelings.
Stats
List of issues/PR's which have it's last update in the specified period:
There are currently 139 open issues.
There are currently 19 open Pull Requests.
What do you think?
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