Hello,
Like any large project, we have a lot of old tasks/tickets/issues
opened and it's hard to know what is still relevant, considering that a
lot has changed, or there hasn't been anyone to work on them, etc.
To keep things under control, some open source projects have adopted a
time limit on how long these can stay open. I would like to propose we
do the same.
A soft threshold would trigger a warning being added to the task
saying it's going stale. After a hard threshold is reached, the task
would be closed.
This doesn't mean someone can't re-open the task and we could also
have a special tag preventing the stale mechanism to activate on it.
Any thoughts?
Thank you
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Giovanni Tirloni
Operations Engineer
Wikimedia Cloud Services