Some time ago I marked a lot of issues as bulk-close-candidate. Filtering for 
those could help as
they are likely candidates for closing (old, not recently updated, affecting 
outdated versions, etc.).

Uli

On 25.07.2013 23:06, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
> I've been taking some time the last couple of days to work through the huge
> issue backlog for Tapestry.
>
> I've been fixing some low-hanging fruit. I've been assigning many issues to
> myself for later.
>
> I've also been closing out a lot of issues. Some of them are things that
> are fixed (or at least, very probably fixed) in 5.4.  Many are duplicates,
> which can be tedious to sort out.
>
> Some issues are concerned with client-side JavaScript in 5.3 that no longer
> make sense in 5.4. At this time I'm closing those issues with a note to
> that effect. The assumption there is that we are not going to be doing
> another 5.3 release, or at least, that we would only fix critical bugs in a
> potential 5.3 release; this is not the result of a developer discussion,
> merely my assessment of the issues and that status of the other committers.
>
> If you *really* want something fixed, a patch with tests is the best way to
> make that happen.
>
> In any case, a closed issue is not the end of the line; issues can always
> be re-opened if there is a valid case to be made. Again, a case is more
> valid if it includes a test case to demonstrate the problem and, better
> yet, a patch with tests.
>
> However, with a backlog of 450+ issues to be addressed, getting the list
> down to a manageable state is a precursor to getting 5.4 to a beta release.
>
>


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