[development] {Short issue queues need care - 7} Why we shouldn't close all issues without proper review.

[Derek Wright]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Angela Byron wrote:

>> 1. People have the habit to request features for the Drupal  
>> version they use, instead of requesting them in the HEAD. We could  
>> have a way to stop users from adding these requests to versions  
>> other than HEAD
>
> Sure. This option should be added as a patch to Project module:  
> http://drupal.org/project/issues/project

not to nit pick, but this should really be a feature request for the  
Project issue tracking module, instead:

http://drupal.org/project/issues/project_issue

;)  that said, it's going to be a little tricky to do this in a way  
that's not entirely specific to drupal.org's use of project issue  
tracking.  we'd have to somehow provide a way for project owners to  
specify what categories are valid for each version of their project.   
keep in mind that in the new world order of releases, there could be  
N branches where new features are valid requests...  the drupal core  
project itself won't have this problem, but i'm not interested in  
hard-coding this behavior into the project_issue codebase and having  
a special-case hack for the drupal core project...  so, if you're  
going to post the feature request about this and work on a patch,  
please keep this in mind. ;)

back to the original point of this thread: i strongly agree w/  
Augustin's position that we should *not* just blindly close all the  
issues older than a certain date relative to a certain version, etc.   
issue queues are sorted by most-recently-touched by default, and you  
can easily ignore pages 2-N if you don't want to worry about the old  
stuff.  but, by automatically closing issues, we definitely lose a  
lot of info, and make it harder for the people (like augustin,  
myself, and others) who have whatever bizzare disease it is that  
makes us anal about cleaning up old issue queues. ;)  there's been a  
lot of progress on this cleanup work already (thanks in large part to  
augustin's efforts) -- let's just keep that going and see where we  
are in 3-6 months.

thanks,
-dww