Hey folks, I'm having a bit of a tidy up of the monorepo and would like to check in with folks before making a move.
As of this moment, we have 345 open PRs and 4188 open issues. This number was higher a week ago, but I've been making some effort to identify and close stale issues. There are many PRs which appear abandoned - no activity in the past 12 months or would require significant refactoring or resolving of git conflicts as the codebase has moved on significantly. I'd like to take the following actions: Category: 1 - PRs - haven't been commented on or touched in the past 12 months (137 at present; 40% of open PRs)[1] Classification: Possibly abandoned Reason: Creates noise or impression the issue is being worked on Response: Close these with the message "Closing because it has been untouched for a year, which may be an indication it's not longer being actively worked on. Feel free to re-open if it is still being worked on!" Category: 2 - Issues - improvements that haven't been commented on in over 3 years (498; 12% if open issues) Classification: May or may not still be things we'd like to implement in future, unclear Reason: Gives the impression that items are currently on someone's roadmap, may prevent user making feature request for it Reponse: Comment on these issues with warning that will be closed in 30 days if no comment saying otherwise. Close unanswered issues after 30 days. Category: 3 - Issues - user questions with no ongoing conversation for over 12 months (107; 3% of open issues)[3] Classification: Unclear if user still needs helps Reason: Adds to repo noise Reponse: Comment on these issues with warning that will be closed in 30 days if no comment saying otherwise. Close unanswered issues after 30 days. Manually update to "improvement" if it's now a feature update or docs change needed. Things I've intentionally left out here: 1. Bug tickets - I'd like to come back to these in a later discussion 2. Automation of this on a regular basis - if we go ahead, I'd like to do a first pass and see how much response we get to closure warning tickets, and then open a new discussion Any objections to this, or anything we'd like to discuss/change here? Thanks, Nic [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues?q=is%3Apr%20state%3Aopen%20%20updated%3A%3C%40today-1y [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20%20updated%3A%3C%40today-3y%20label%3A%22Type%3A%20enhancement%22 [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20%20updated%3A%3C%40today-1y%20label%3A%22Type%3A%20usage%22
