> > I don't have any problems with an aspirational backlog of tickets.
I don't either, until they rot. Many of the tickets i closed haven't been touched in over a year, some nearly 2. This doesn't always mean they're invalid, but definitely means we don't care much about completing them. Personally, i think we should move on from these tickets and reopen them if we ever decide to revisit Also, in the future, perhaps have this discussion before closing tickets > en-masse? I can see why that is frustrating. I had an impromptu discussion with Zameer prior to this, and in the past others have remarked on the overwhelming nature of our queue; which prompted me to take action. Not consensus by any means, but i was assuming at the least i can undo my changes. In case it's helpful, here's a query that captures the tickets i closed yesterday: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AURORA%20and%20status%3DResolved%20and%20status%20changed%20by%20wfarner%20and%20updatedDate%3E%272015%2F12%2F27%27%20and%20updatedDate%3C%272015%2F12%2F28%27 On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Joshua Cohen <jco...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment. I don't have any problems with an > aspirational backlog of tickets. At the very least it's a place to refer > people who request commonly asked for features. Perhaps the solution isn't > to close tickets that we don't imagine will see attention in the immediate > future, but rather to label them so they're easy to filter out from the > ones what will? > > Also, in the future, perhaps have this discussion before closing tickets > en-masse? Especially over a holiday weekend when people aren't around to > discuss? It's not likely that first thing back from a long weekend many > folks are going to take time to scan read through a list of a hundred jira > emails to see if any of their pet issues were resolved ;). > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Erb, Stephan < > stephan....@blue-yonder.com> > wrote: > > > +1. Having a well-groomed bug tracker is very helpful for everyone > > involved. > > > > In particular, it would be great if we could get the bug count to 0 over > > the course of the next months. Either bugs are important and we get them > > fixed, or we have to guts to close them as won't fix and update the > > documentation accordingly. > > > > Best Regards, > > Stephan > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Bill Farner <wfar...@apache.org> > > Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 4:44 PM > > To: dev@aurora.apache.org > > Subject: Ticket cleanup > > > > 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. > > >
