[Tracker-discuss] [issue16] Automatic issue expiration

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 at 16:49, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
>
>> The closing of the issue should catch their attention. And commenting will
>>> re-open it so it isn't hard to change the state. I still think that
>>> closing
>>> a pending issue after 14 days is a good idea.
>>>
>>
>> I would suggest the period be a month. I don't there there is really a lot
>> that would be solved by using 14 days instead of a month, whereas I can
>> see
>> that a lot of people might not always get around to responding to an issue
>> in 14 days.
>>
>
> The exact time probably doesn't matter.  I think there are two cases:
> either the OP (or anyone else) is going to respond within a couple days
> or not at all, or they will respond after they get back from
> vacation...so 14 days probably covers most people's vacations, and
> a month ought to cover just about everyone :)
>
> For some reason I can't articulate, though, I like 14 days.


I think 14 days probably covers active developers/contributors, but will
many individuals do not fall in this category. I think it's important to
pick up as much as possible.

Cheers,
-T
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