There doesn't seem to be any objection and those that have responded are overwhelmingly supportive to this so I'm going to go ahead and start closing JIRA's. I appologize for the JIRA spam this is going to cause. :-)
Dan On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:27:18 PM Daniel Kulp wrote: > I was kind of poking around to see how some other projects handle feature > requests for things likely not to ever be implemented as we're a similar > situations. We have a bunch of JIRA's logged years ago for new features, > but no one has stepped up to implement them. > > A couple projects have a pseudo time limit. If no-one steps up to claim it > or submit a patch within a certain period (like maybe a year), they close > is as "Won't Fix" with a comment along the lines of "If someone would like > to step up and implement this, re-open and attach a patch." > > What are peoples thoughts on this? I'd really like to get some of the > clutter out of JIRA. I would also suggest either a 6 month or 1 year > limit on feature request JIRAs. -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://dankulp.com/blog Talend - http://www.talend.com