[Nix-dev] Too many open issues

[Alexey Shmalko]

This one: https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs

On 07/22/2016 03:30 PM, Kevin Cox wrote:
> I'm not a huge fan of auto-closing issues based on just activity. The one auto-close feature I do like is the `need info` tag when you need more from the reporter. Then the issue is closed in a week or two if they don't respond.
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> The reason I don't like auto-closing issues is that it seems more like fighting the symptom then the problem. Just because you close an issue doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I think a better way is to get more triager to quickly put issues on the wishlist or find an assignee. Rather then close it is probably better to have an "important" or tag of things that should be looked at first (and maybe try to keep that close to zero). I see little value to closing issues just because we don't want to work on them right now.
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> It is really painful that only commiters can add tags because I would love to help out with triaging more then just commenting (I think comments often have low value because you can't filter on them).
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> One other thing that might help is I remember a service that would send a couple of open issues to your inbox to help divide the load of triaging. I'm going to see if I can find it again as it would probably be useful.
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