I'd like to share some rationale on my JIRA activity last night. I'm happy to undo any of the changes if folks disagree.
We had approximately 450 open tickets prior to last night. Personally, I found it daunting to find things we should actually work on. To remedy this, I started by skimming through tickets that have not been touched in the last 6 months. This quickly identified a swath of tickets that may be valid, but I did not imagine them being valuable enough to address in the foreseeable future. If there is interest in doing more of this, I welcome help from others to continue reducing the queue to something more manageable. My culling reduced the queue but it is still very large. If you do participate in this, please try to avoid using "Resolved, Fixed" so as to not add noise to the changelog in the next release.
