> Am 16.02.2022 um 14:12 schrieb Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org>:
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>
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> On 2/16/22 10:32 AM, Stefan Eissing wrote:
>> How about we close stale issues on our bugzilla after a year without changes
>> with
>>
>> WONTFIX
>> We are sorry, but no one found the interest/time to work on this.
>>
>> ideally as an automated job somewhere?
>
> What is the issue with keeping them open? I guess this would be the most
> honest choice. If we decide deliberately that we don't
> want to do something we can close it explicitly as WONTFIX.
> Otherwise I think we have no one in our back that forces us to close tickets
> within a particular time frame to meet whatever KPI :-)
No KPI in my mind! ;-)
My intention is to free us from collective decisions and let us focus on the
work relevant.
Having a "collective decision to WONTFIX" is exactly what is not happening,
because we already
have enough to do and things that no one bothers about should not take more
time. We should
not spend coordination efforts on things no one wants to work on.
WONTFIX is rarely an individual decision (aside from the occasional Roy veto),
so issues
simply clutter up and rot on bugzilla. How many of us scan the list of open bug
reports
regularly? I had one look when I joined and thought "okaaaayy, this is some
Augeas stable
and I'm not Hercules!"
And "honest", from my view, would be to tell reporters:
"look, if no one has worked on this by now, it is most likely that no one will
just
by itself. We are volunteers on our free time. It might not have appeared as
important
to us. We may have missed the implications/seriousness.
If this issue is important to you, here is what we advise you as possible
follow ups: ..."
If indeed an auto-wontfix seems to harsh for you, how about:
- add STALE as bug status
- set reports to STALE after n months of inactivity.
- anyone can close STALE issues where we wait for a reply
from the bug submitter.
Kind Regards,
Stefan
>
> Regards
>
> Rüdiger
