That is my impression too ;)

Thanks for the feedback. If no one objects, I will plan to start some
cleaning action next week.

Gruß
Richard

Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 12:28 +0200 schrieb Jean-Louis Monteiro:
> I would agree.
> The benefit of keeping history is probably hurting us to welcome new
> contributors. And even worse, a lot of issues only have titles if I
> recall
> last time I looked at this problem, so maybe just the reporter
> remembers
> (?) if this is still accurate and what it means.
> --
> Jean-Louis Monteiro
> http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro
> http://www.tomitribe.com
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thomas Andraschko <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > +1
> > 
> > Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 26. Apr.
> > 2023,
> > 11:26:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > We have a huge mess of open issues, which are very old and are
> > > targeting 1.7.x, 7.0.x or 7.1.x.
> > > 
> > > Some of these issues are already fixed (reporter didn't respond,
> > > issue
> > > was never closed), had no activity for years now (ie. was a
> > > config
> > > issue by the user, no response to questions) or are badly
> > > written, so
> > > they cannot be reproduced anyway.
> > > 
> > > I think, that this mess hinders new contributors in finding
> > > adequate
> > > tasks as it is totally unclear, which of these issues are worth
> > > to be
> > > worked on.
> > > 
> > > Given that we eol'ed 1.7.x, 7.0.x and 7.1.x, we can (imho) close
> > > most
> > > of the related issues. With our limited resources, it is
> > > impossible to
> > > test, if these issues are still encountered in 8.0.x, 9.x or 10.x
> > > 
> > > I would like to propose to clean up our Jira, ie close most of
> > > these
> > > orphaned / stale issues as "won't fix" because of "no activity"
> > > or
> > > "eol'ed" target versions. Closing the issues won't affect the
> > > searchability nor do we loose information. It just provide some
> > > more
> > > clarity for the actual tasks we are working on.
> > > 
> > > If a reporter is still interested or a issue still bothers
> > > him/her, the
> > > issue can re-opened and correctly updated with a (still
> > > supported)
> > > target version.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Gruß
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > 

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