Non PMC committees certainly can close jira issues. I do this all the time.
Also if we want to conserve volunteer time we should not spend time moving to GitHub. That’s extra work compared to simply continuing with jira. Leaving a bug open costs nothing until someone is ready to address it. On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:06 AM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote: > Are you all sure this is how _an open source project having > volunteers-only is supposed to work?_ (maybe better as: "spend it's > scarce resources"?) > > As if we'd all be in some company, working on some company product, > then yes, I agree wholeheartedly, this is "how things should be done". > > But in reality, I see nobody out of those 17 active PMCs [1] (as > committers have no karma to close issues AFAIK) who will do this. > > Moreover, spending resources on THIS (bookkeeping) than any OTHER > effort is IMO waste. > > For example, who is testing Maven4, that is soon rc-2? As not testing > it will cause even more issues, that will result in even more > bookkeeping... a devil's circle. > > IMO, we should "lump" migrate all and just move on, keep this pile > open, and leave it rotting as it has been rotting so far. On GH at > least committers could close issues as well. > > [1] > https://ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven-dist-tool/job/master/site/dist-tool-committers-stats.html > > My 5 cents. > > Thanks > T > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 2:48 PM Maarten Mulders <mthmuld...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > On 11/12/2024 12:29, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 5:10 PM Slawomir Jaranowski > > > <s.jaranow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 17:42, Sylwester Lachiewicz > > >> <slachiew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Michale proposed closing all issues that have not been active for > more > > >>> than 3 years, so there will be less to maintain/migrate. > > >> > > >> Maybe we can limit the age during import. > > >> Maybe we should make a decision for each project. > > >> > > > > > > -10 > > > > > > When this was last proposed 5 years ago, I went through Jira and made > > > sure that every issue older than the cutoff date had some sort of > > > recent activity so nothing was eligible for automatic closure. I'd > > > rather not have to hack the process like this again. I routinely find > > > and sometimes fix bugs that go back to the oldest ones in JIra. If > > > more devs spent more time triaging old bugs, they'd find more too. > > > > I agree with this! From a reporter point-of-view, it is extremely > > demotivating to see a report that you wrote getting ignored for a couple > > of years only to be closed for "administration reasons". Don't do this. > > It made me stop contributing (by reporting issues) to a few projects > > already, because they basically didn't seem to care. > > > > > I'd also like to encourage people to deliberately close bugs that are > > > in fact invalid, unwise, or already fixed. Surprisingly often I find a > > > final comment from an active committer or PMC member that lays out in > > > detail how the bug has been addressed or why it shouldn't be > > > addressed, but they have not pressed the button to close the bug. > > > Please press the button. However, this needs to be done issue by > > > issue, not as a bulk close of all issues older than some arbitrary > > > date. > > > > > > > Rather do this. If we are sure something is not a bug, take the time to > > explain it and then close it. If the reporter thinks we're wrong, they > > can always re-open. Closing an issue with solid reasoning is much better > > than closing it because it was opened more than X years ago. > > > > > > Maarten > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org
