Really, it's more about dropping a nuclear bomb on JIRA. While trying to sift through it this weekend it's clear to me it's less than ideal in there.
There are issues that are 12 years old and while there might be some useful information in there that we hand select, I think anything that is older than 5 years we should just close as incomplete because with the great deal of change that's happened with 3.x most of it isn't relevant and if it is, and someone cares that much then it can be reopened with a stand-alone working example of the problem. Now, as to the requirements for a stand-alone working example I think we should enforce this because personally I'm not going to check out someone's project, figure out how to interpret it in relation to the actual problem in Maven and then create a project I can turn into an IT. I'm just not going to do it generally. There might be exceptions but I don't want to read a textual examples or try to figure out snippets of a production project that can't be shared. In m2e we require a working example project to even look at a problem and if the issue sits there for a year with a working sample project we close it. Having an issue tracking system with 700 open issues is useless, so I would like to do a mass purge. It shouldn't really get beyond 50 open issues or it's just impossible to manage effectively. Not sure what anyone else thinks but our JIRA situation is just not effective. I'm thinking anything over 5 years old that isn't assigned to a core developer we just close as incomplete and then see what we're left with. If anyone complains then we point them at doco (I'll write it) about creating a stand-alone project because otherwise it become impossible. I spent 8 hours over the weekend looking at issues trying to interpret what someone was trying to say and I don't want to guess. If the user cares enough they can make an example project. Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau
