[Scons-dev] bug prune

[Jonathon Reinhart]

Note that you can subscribe to a GitHub issue without commenting. This is
preferred as it avoids spamming all currently-subscribed users.

Also, I think mass/automated bug closing needs to be done very
conservatively. Closing an issue doesn't make the bug go away. There are
projects that have bots which close issues after 30 days of inactivity, and
I find it infuriating.





On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 08:50 Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

>
> Just to pull some thoughts together:
>
> there are currently 679 open scons issues on github.
>
> That number drops to 92 if you select only ones which have had a
> modification since the big migration from tigris. Try this query:
>
> is:issue is:open updated:>=2018-02-10
>
> or as a link:
>
>
> https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+updated%3A%3E%3D2018-02-10+
>
> I'm a relative newcomer around here, but I don't see the value of
> showing a ton of historical bugs that aren't being worked on; the newly
> filed ones don't even get a lot of attention - there just isn't a big
> scons team at this point and numerically most current contributors have
> a specific motivation ("itch to scratch" as it were) rather than the
> ability to just generally work on bugs.  To provide more visible focus
> there's already been some discussion of a bug prune.
>
> My suggestion is this:
>
> (a) close all open tigris bugs with a message that includes these items:
>
> * bug is now tracked on github [link]
> * bugs which have not had activity in 18 months are going to be closed
> (it doesn't have to be 18, but that was the cutover time)
> * we understand readers of this issue might not see messages from
> github, so if you want to keep this issue alive, make a comment - any
> comment - on the corresponding github issue.
>
> (b) fire up a bot to mark inactive github issues with a tag, and
> configure suitably.  Looks like there's an app in the github marketplace
> that is free so setup is just a YAML file. Example setup here:
>
>
> https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/commit/afd968dfa1ce1141456a207484d35f2766d5916b
>
> the app:
>
> https://github.com/marketplace/stale
>
> (c) someone scan through the first-time closure proposal list and
> manually update any which seem deserving of continued life.
>
>
> Closed-as-stale issues don't vanish, they are still there to be browsed
> as needed...
>
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