periodic auto actions on bug tracker

It’s a great idea - I too have a good look at what I previously reported and decide if it’s still relevant and whether it makes sense to still pursue it.

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> On 9 Dec 2018, at 06:20, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I support the auto-closing of old tickets to avoid bug bankruptcy.  Sometimes things seem more important at the time and when my own tickets come back around I get to be more analytical about the effort/reward balance.
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> It would be useful to expand this a bit to have a quarterly mail out saying something like "Is this issue still important to you?  Try socializing it on the pharo-dev mail list.  Issues going twelve months without interaction will be auto-closed".  Then its not a bad surprise to new users when their ticket is auto-closed.
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> cheers -ben
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> On 9 Dec 2018, at 01:50, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I support the auto-closing of old tickets to avoid bug bankruptcy.  Sometimes things seem more important at the time and when my own tickets come back around I get to be more analytical about the effort/reward balance.
>
> It would be useful to expand this a bit to have a quarterly mail out saying something like "Is this issue still important to you?  Try socializing it on the pharo-dev mail list.  Issues going twelve months without interaction will be auto-closed".  Then its not a bad surprise to new users when their ticket is auto-closed.
>

Yes, that is a good idea.

I will add it to the things to do for the issue tracker / integration related scripts.

        Marcus

Marcus Denker-4 wrote
>> I support the auto-closing of old tickets to avoid bug bankruptcy
> ...
> Yes, that is a good idea.

I thought we already did that. Don't we even have a stale/timeout tag to
distinguish from other reasons for closing and help find them again later if
needed?



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We close them with a timeout tag.

But we do not send a public mail “hey, these tickets will be closed next week”.

Only the *owner* gets a message on closing.

        Marcus