Closing submission incomplete since years?

[Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Maxim,

For reference [1].

On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 at 18:14, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> On a related note sometimes we have WIP kind of work that stays on our
> tracker with deeper questions / problems to solve, and I don't think
> it's fair for our reviewers to have these linger on for years on the
> tracker (they take a lot of time to get familiar with, and would then
> require quit more investment to be completed, sometimes with the
> original submitter no longer active in the discussion) -- I think for
> these situations it's fair to close it.  An interested person can
> hopefully find these in the archives and resume work on it if they are
> so inclined.

I am more or less agree.  Especially for keeping the tracker
healthy. However, I am missing how “an interested person can hopefully
find these in the archives and resume work on it if they are so
inclined.“

Maybe we could have another usertags for tagging this case or another
tag.  Else, it appears to me unpractical to find these in the archives.
Well, I personally do not even know how or where to start for finding
these.

Exercise: find the patches that someone pinged their status from the 10
Years of Guix event and another person then closed. :-)

    Found it?  If no,

    Hint 1: someone was me. ;-)

    Found it?  If no,

    Hint 2: another person was you. ;-)

    Found it?  If no,

    Hint 3: it was about elasticsearch.

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=elasticsearch

    Found it?  If no,

    Hint 4: tag ’moreinfo’.

Well, if just marked as done, then it appears to me unpractical to find
these in the archives.

Cheers,
simon


1: [bug#31444] 'guix health': a tool to report vulnerable packages
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:14:13 -0400
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