[mapserver-dev] MOTION: Run script to close tickets more than one year without activity

Tue Feb 23 04:14:42 PST 2016

Passed with +1 from DanielM, ThomasB, StephanM, MikeS, SteveL, JeffM and -0
from SteveW, UmbertoN(retired)

Stephan will be running the script during this code-sprint, once we've
tweaked the message to include as a comment.

Regards,
Thomas

On 27 March 2014 at 19:24, Stephan Meißl <stephan at meissl.name> wrote:

> Hi Bart,
>
> I think it would be possible to add a Cc but I also think that this
> wouldn't help if you configured to not get notifications. Additionally
> it won't help with all the tickets that were imported to GitHub from
> Trac as the opener there is always mapserver-bot.
>
> cu
> Stephan
>
>
> On 03/25/2014 09:52 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> > Hi Stephan,
> >
> > I’ve heard people complain that they don’t always get github
> notifications on a ticket they have opened (because of their settings),
> would it be possible to do an explicit
> >
> > cc @opener in the description text?
> >
> > where opener is the github user that opened up the ticket.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > On 24 Mar 2014, at 19:03, Stephan Meißl <stephan at meissl.name> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jukka,
> >>
> >> valid points. Just a quick note, the script adds the special label "No
> >> Recent Activity" as well as a comment before closing any issue. At the
> >> moment the text of the comment is the following:
> >>
> >> ### This is an automated comment
> >>
> >> This issue has been closed due to lack of activity. This doesn't mean
> >> the issue is invalid, it simply got no attention within the last year.
> >> Please reopen if still valid.
> >>
> >>
> >> Would this comment address your concerns? Would you like me to add
> >> something to it?
> >>
> >> cu
> >> Stephan
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/24/2014 05:52 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Please remember that Mapserver in not only developer community but
> there are still some users hanging around here.
> >>> I was fast browsing through ten pages of more than 1 year old tickets
> and I do not ultimately like the idea about closing all old tickets
> automatically.
> >>> - There are real issues and feature requests which are still valid.
> >>> - Many of them are created by not so active developers or users. They
> have once found a real issue but they perhaps don't come back with it after
> the ticket is closed.
> >>> - Nobody will go through the +4200 closed tickets and check if there
> are some which should be re-opened.
> >>> - Especially because there is not an issue class "probably still
> valid, but unfortunately no one had time to work on it".
> >>> - For someone who creates a ticket it would feel impolite to hear next
> time about the issue after one year by getting a message: "Issue
> automatically solved because no one has solved the issue".
> >>> - At least the message should encourage the creator of the ticket to
> check if the issue is still valid and re-open it.
> >>> - Much better if there is some human touch: During ticket closing
> sprint is was concluded that this ticket should be closed because...
> >>> - If the issue is valid, isn't it better to keep it open than to try
> to forget that it exists?
> >>> - Another alternative would be to try to organize issue-closing
> sprints for advanced users like me for giving a helping hand for the busy
> developers. The result would be a list of suggested actions: "Close as
> resolved (check if I remember right)", "Close with kind message to
> creator", "Ask developer what to do" and "Keep open".  I do understands
> that issues do not get solved be keeping them in a queue forever. Perhaps
> PSC could give us a limits: Only max 200 old tickets can be left open, the
> rest must be dropped at least to category "Close with kind message to
> creator".
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> With kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> >>>
> >>> Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> How many tickets are we talking about?
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-
> >>>> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> >>>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:43 AM
> >>>> To: 'MapServer Dev List'
> >>>> Subject: [mapserver-dev] MOTION: Run script to close tickets more
> than one
> >>>> year without activity
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi MapServer PSC
> >>>>
> >>>> MOTION:
> >>>>
> >>>> To adopt the practice of automatically closing issues in the
> MapServer Github
> >>>> repository that have had no activity for more than one year.
> >>>>
> >>>> And I start with my +1
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Context:
> >>>>
> >>>> This came up again at the Vienna Code Sprint today and there was
> general
> >>>> agreement to go ahead with this mass closing since tickets that have
> seen no
> >>>> activity in over a year are either invalid, no longer relevant, or
> lacking
> >>>> information or a champion to address them. If a ticket is
> automatically closed by
> >>>> the script but is still relevant then someone can reopen it and
> provide an update
> >>>> on its status.
> >>>>
> >>>> Stephan Meissl and Thomas Bonfort have created a script to
> automatically
> >>>> execute this mass closing and tested it at the sprint last year. If
> this motion
> >>>> passes, this script would be run manually at regular interval every
> few months.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Daniel Morissette
> >>>> T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
> >>>> http://www.mapgears.com/
> >>>> Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
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