<div dir="ltr"><div>I think this is a great approach, Tom.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry I haven't been super active lately. But what little review I do, I'll keep this in mind.</div><div>-Paul<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:24 AM Thomas Caswell <<a href="mailto:tcaswell@gmail.com">tcaswell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Folks,<div><br></div><div>We have had a number of bug reports come in recently from first-time reporters (you can tell if you mouse over their icon) that have been quickly closed. On one hand, they have been technically correct, however on the other we should try to be more welcoming to new contributors.</div><div><br></div><div>I propose that in "we think this is not a bug" cases instead of immediately closing, we ask the OP if they are ok closing as not a bug and leave the issue open for a few days (there has been discussion of using one of the auto-close bots for stale issues / PRs which I am in general against, but I think a "waiting for feedback" label + a bot that either removes the label on the next comment or auto-closes after N days would be useful). </div><div><br></div><div>We should also consider changing some of those issues into documentation issues. It can be useful to ask the OP "where would you have expected this to be documented?".</div><div><br></div><div>Tom <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-6391237149477319083gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Thomas Caswell<br><a href="mailto:tcaswell@gmail.com" target="_blank">tcaswell@gmail.com</a></div></div></div>
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