+1
Thank you for taking on this task!

One question that just came to mind: are there many issues without any
label (Improvement, Bug, or User question) that could be classified as
stale?

Alenka

V V tor., 17. jun. 2025 ob 12:40 je oseba Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com>
napisala:

> 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
>

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