On 1/16/2015 2:59 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Github already has a feature for sorting the PR list by most recently
updated, least recently updated, oldest, newest, etc., etc..
It's just a matter of setting the *default* sorting order. I don't know
if github supports that, but for a long time now I've been wishing that
the PR page should default to "most recently update" instead of
"newest", as it is now.
Yes, I'd like to change the default.
Some companies, in the name of reining in the number of open bugs,
resort to closing "inactive" (but nonetheless valid) bugs after a given
amount of time. Sure, it reduces some integer on somebody's statistics
page, but did it increase the quality of the product? Nope. Did it
reduce the amount of work needed? Nope, on the contrary, it *increased*
it, since later on some other customer inevitably runs into the same
problem whose bug report got closed down, so now we have extra overhead
for (re)processing the "new" bug, and repeating the research that has
been buried in the dusts of bugtracker history in order to get back up
to speed with the problem.
Yup. I fail to see how automatically closing PRs after X days can possibly
result in an improved quality of the product.
And even worse, it can result in someone unwittingly doing work to submit a new
PR that solves the same problem. We can't afford people wasting effort like that.
