[zeromq-dev] dealing with stale github issues

[Wes Young]

hi,

as i’m catching up on my somewhat stale czmq/zyre/tls/gossip/tls forks, i’m weeding through the issues on czmq and zyre and thinking “2016? is this still an issue?” for a number of my own github projects i’ve started enabling the stale app on github to just remove things that either aren’t problems or aren’t problems worth solving.

https://github.com/apps/stale

has anyone brought this up for some of the zeromq repo’s (i may even have, i forget)? i’m a little more aggressive with my own repo’s (assuming people log issues and don’t submit a PR to fix the problem, after 21-45 days they get closed). having spent the last few years digging through the guts of ZAP, TLS, Zyre, GOSSIP, etc.. 21 days may be a bit harsh… maybe something simple like 12mo for some repo’s and see how it plays out?

the biggest concern i have is [for myself] figuring out what and where i can dive into stuff when i have a spare cycle here and there- i can only imagine some new users might feel the same overwhelming “where do i start?” when looking at obviously stale issues that go back to 2016, 2015.. or worse- “this project has too many bugs! and clearly no one is paying attn”.

even if you wanted to fix some of them, you’d have to start over again (find the original complainer, get data, etc) anyway. i’ve tried that a few times, things just go stale, people get busy and it doesn’t help that these projects sometimes move really fast, leaving some of these issues irrelevant anyway.

if i owned the world, it feels like 6-9mo is a good number, 12mo is probably a good start though for projects like this imo. it’s not like you can’t find these later if they re-surface (and re-open), but it’s a lot of noise imo. i’m thinking Zyre (and maybe czmq?) might be a good place to test this? thoughts? has this been brought up before (and squashed)?

this community has done a great job at keeping the PR queue clean, something that’s brainwashed me into HATING ANY PROJECT that doesn’t do that. i think the issues queue is the next step in that evolution.

happy to take critisism's, just trying to make it easier to get involved w/o having all the legacy baggage. ymmv.

thanks for all that everyone here does!
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wes
github.com/wesyoung
csirtgadgets.com

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