Re: [eclipse-pmc] Stop bug auto closing!

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for the JDT committers and JDT project leads to decide to turn that
on / off.

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:22 PM Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Following up from https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jdt-dev/msg01419.html I want to
>> inform the PMC that I see these options:
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>> 1) Turn of auto closing of old bugs - AT LEAST FOR JDT.
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> Is there a decision between JDT committers to do that? If there is such - the PMC should honor it.
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>> Or
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>> 2) I have to step down from my assumed responsibility for ecj maintenance.
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>> Or
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>> 3) I don't see an option #3
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>> Note that this has two aspects:
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>> - the flood of mails which takes down significant time from development
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>> - IF we'd ignore those mails (ideally automatically!!!) we'd loose significant,
>>    perhaps vital information about previous efforts in analysis and recognized
>>    violations of JLS (in the case of ecj).
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>> cheers,
>> Stephan
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>> PS: FWIW, the backlog of JDT bugs waiting for auto-close is currently 4456.
>> There's no reason to expect this flood to end any time soon.
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