[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Tasks clean-up

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:28:36PM +0100, Alex Fernandez wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It's good to clean-up tasks, but unless you want to cope with all the
> > answers from all the people you're waking up at once, I would suggest
> > to slow it down.
> 
> No problem, after 12 years in the software industry my management
> skills (or rather juggling with angry users) are quite sharp by now!
> :)  I would like to tackle all open tasks with "None" either in the
> Status or Assigned-To field, and my old open tasks as well.
> 
> I expect most people will not bother answering so old tasks can just
> be closed. From the rest, most problems will be forgotten or forgiven
> by now, and so people will probably be glad to let them go.
> 
> I could use some advice on a few issues. For starters, I expect that
> some old projects which are still review-pending will not answer, and
> I don't know what to do with them: delete in two weeks? Ignore? Nag
> repeatedly? No course of action seems good at all.
> 
> Also, old support tasks which are still of interest might be closed as
> they are obviously not being solved, but some of them could still be
> useful (like the stats page). Should I close them, or leave them open
> in the hope that some shining knight eventually appears?
> 
> Thanks for the advice!

I don't exactly have the time to help you with this.  I don't think
cleaning up the tracker is a Savannah priority at the moment, the
semi-mess where it is suits me for the time being.  I don't like
trackers much so it may be a matter of personal taste.

-- 
Sylvain