To give you an idea, there are still 109 issues that were updated in the last 2 weeks: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20%20updated%3A%3E%3D2016-07-08
This is already quite enough to work on. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:37 AM Wout Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the thing about auto-reopening, it makes sure that people > interested in seeing the issue fixed are reminded of the issue so they can > continue fixing it, as well as automatically weeding out the issues that > are no longer important. > > All the *real* issues will stay active, since people will reopen them. All > the rest will be available in the history. > > I think 14 days is enough time between reminders for an open source > project. Shorter is annoying since we can't work on open source every day, > and longer will just lead to more stale issues. > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:17 AM Oliver Charles <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Agreed. >> >> But if the problem is you think old issues are skewing the results/making >> it hard to find the signal, then can't you just use more intelligent search >> filters? E.g., things created in the past 3 months. >> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:15 AM Eelco Dolstra < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 07/22/2016 09:06 AM, Wout Mertens wrote: >>> >>> > We have 1238 open issues and 286 open PRs. >>> > >>> > That is just too much to reason about. >>> > >>> > How about using something like https://github.com/twbs/no-carrier >>> which >>> > auto-closes after 14 days of inactivity, and reopens on a new comment? >>> >>> There is something to be said for auto-closing issues after a long time >>> (e.g. >>> Fedora auto-closes inactive issues from CURRENT-2 releases ago), but 14 >>> days is >>> waaaay to short. Bugs don't disappear after 14 days... >>> >>> -- >>> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nix-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >
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