I think this is a very good idea. But I have seen this mis-used a few times in other projects, and I think we want to avoid this scenario:
There are some bugs that have very well written bug reports with detailed descriptions on reproduction and/or quite a few watchers too. I've seen this "rule" misused; some committer comes along and requests some kind of additional information - sometimes the request can border on the silly and maybe the committer does not really even understand the problem (half of us really don't half the time - that's just the way triaging works sometimes). So the issue gets closed because the people who are familiar with the bug think it's a silly request to make (and they might not even know its a committer making it - we have no special distinctions in jira) and we basically piss off users. So I think it's a good strategy for half-baked, potentially old and half-clear issues (which there are a LOT of!). A hundred years ago someone taught me that if one person reports something it can be ignored, but when the second person reports it it's most likely a bug. So any issue with just one "user" watcher should be pretty harmless ( I may sometimes watch issues but I really don't want to be counted as a watcher...) I just fixed/triaged well over a hundred bugs in maven-assembly-plugin and out of the 56 remaining bugs there's probably 20-30 I'd want to close this way. I was about to create some heuristic about when to be careful with such a rule, but I basically changed my mind :) Actually maybe we should just say that after >30 days, we add an additional message "this issue will be closed as incomplete in 10 days unless the requested information is supplied"; just to give a clear indication that we mean it. A well defined process is much more important than "hasty" closing. And if a different committer thinks the issue should be kept open, it's all ok to say so in the issue. I am also slightly sceptical of carpet-bombing jira with this stuff; once we request more test data we're also giving the expectation that someone /will/ be looking at the additional data that the user has supplied. So I would be expecting whoever triages with this method to also be willing to do at least some followup...? But this is overall just details on how to make this good; I'm +1 on the proposal. Kristian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
