I have seen other open source project handling that with a comment saying the ticket will be closed in a short time. I assume closing with a comment it's fine to reopen if it's still relevant would be fine. Maybe also tagging the tickets with a label "closed as stalled" ?
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 01:45 David Vaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am playing around at the DjangoCon US 2019 Sprints and while trying to > do my share one thing stands out in the open tickets is: Some are very old > and others have not been touched in a while. > > I did a simple analysis of accepted and open tickets based on last > modified time (kind of a live status). > > The numbers might change over time, but I also linked them: > > Modified at any time All > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2015..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted>: > 1264 > > Modified in last 5 years > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2014..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted>: > 1039 > > Modified in last 4 years: > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2015..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted> > 887 > > Modified in last 3 years > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2016..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted>: > 728 > > Modified in last 2 years > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2017..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted>: > 494 > > Modified in last year > <https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&changetime=09%2F26%2F2018..09%2F26%2F2019&stage=Accepted>: > 329 > > > So if we would decide to close stalled tickets after some inactivity > period we could massively reduce the opened tickets list. Imagine if we > close any ticket no modified in the last 5 years we would reduce by 20% the > active ticket list. If we decide to be more aggressive, say 3 years we can > cut by half the active tickets list. > > > I also believe that apparently stalled tickets might be important. This > auto-close approach would also trigger *a live prof, *any automatically > closed ticket could be reopened if relevant. > > > Let us focus the efforts on the really active ones. > > > Anyway, these are just my thoughts. > > > For those of you who do not know me, I am organizing DjangoCon Europe 2020 > in Porto Portugal and you are all invited, official details are about to be > released. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/b3b855e5-7fd6-4b26-b365-75ff687c4b4c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/b3b855e5-7fd6-4b26-b365-75ff687c4b4c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAEuG%2BTYPvHMVHL9ZEy5fTsA%2Bfj7L_sisehVcRiQbgJF9eKTXsg%40mail.gmail.com.
