i mean you dont even have anything close to fucking consensus about
"bulk close" on this thread. most are against it. why be so fucking
sneaky about it? I don't get it!

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 7:03 AM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 7:01 AM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I added my vote against bulk close functionality.
> > it is pretty clear from this thread that several of us are opposed to
> > bulk close.
> >
> > somehow the discussion jumped from bulk commenting to bulk close. fuck that!
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:39 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I gave it a shot, and it works, so with this change to githubPRs.py 
> > > script: https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/2625 we can close all 
> > > open PRs with a comment and label with a single command. The script can 
> > > also easily be adapted to other use cases.
> > >
> > > Jan
> > >
> > > > 8. des. 2021 kl. 01:33 skrev Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>:
> > > >
> > > > +1 to bulk commenting on the 274 open PRs with a standard message about 
> > > > the need for new PRs.
> > > > We already have a "stale-closed" label in GitHub, so if we add that 
> > > > label to all the issues they can safely be closed without information 
> > > > loss.
> > > > My script 
> > > > https://github.com/apache/lucene/blob/main/dev-tools/scripts/githubPRs.py
> > > >  can probably be tweaked to do these actions. It uses a python GitHub 
> > > > library and already fetches all open PRs, and allows to pass a token, 
> > > > so I guess that the token will also allow edits on behalf of the user.
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > > >
> > > >> 2. des. 2021 kl. 17:55 skrev Michael Sokolov <[email protected]>:
> > > >>
> > > >> In this specific instance, I don't see the harm in leaving these
> > > >> issues there since the entire repo is essentially an archival artifact
> > > >> at this point. If we actually want to notify people that "hey your
> > > >> issue is in a dead zone, do you want to revive it? Here's how ..." we
> > > >> could maybe generate some emails? Although I really have no idea how
> > > >> we would accomplish that.
> > > >>
> > > >> In general, I'm in favor of cleaning up / closing issues that are
> > > >> clearly not going to be worked.
> > > >>
> > > >> For example in JIRA we have so many old issues that they can clutter
> > > >> up search results, making it much harder for new contributors
> > > >> (especially) to find "interesting" issues that might be relevant today
> > > >> and workable.  I have heard various arguments for keeping these old
> > > >> issues: they represent an historical view of the project; "you never
> > > >> know" maybe they become relevant again; and this idea of not annoying
> > > >> people by arbitrarily closing their issue. These all have some
> > > >> validity, but I we have to strike a balance. I wonder if we can
> > > >> address them in another way. In JIRA can we keep these old issues
> > > >> while hiding them from default searches. Can we "archive" old issues
> > > >> in some way? Maybe there is a "Status" like Archived that is different
> > > >> from Closed. Anything but Open!
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 4:15 PM Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I understand the frustrations around closing somebody’s PR as stale, 
> > > >>> but I also think that there is value in informing the contributors I 
> > > >>> this is never getting solved/fixed/looked at, if this is still 
> > > >>> important please go over there instead.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:55 PM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:49 PM Michael McCandless
> > > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Could we maybe instead bulk-add a comment explaining the split and 
> > > >>>>> how to take the PR forwards if someone (in the future) has 
> > > >>>>> itch/time?
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I know we humans love to clean things up, but I think leaving such 
> > > >>>>> "unclean" things open serves an important purpose.  They all had 
> > > >>>>> importance to at least one person at one point in time, and likely 
> > > >>>>> many of them are still relevant if they piqued someones curiosity 
> > > >>>>> to dig back into them.  Closing them makes them harder to find for 
> > > >>>>> the future developer.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I'm sure some of them are already resolved/duplicates too.  If only 
> > > >>>>> we could divine which are which.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> +1, I'd rather not auto-close PRs. I'm always frustrated by this when
> > > >>>> I see it in other trackers. Is there a rush to close these for some
> > > >>>> reason?
> > > >>>>
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