• notna (5/5) Oct 16 2018 another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests
• Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) (6/12) Oct 16 2018 I've encountered stalebot before. I's probably the #1 dumbest software
• H. S. Teoh (15/32) Oct 16 2018 +1. "If we can't fix the problem, let's just close our eyes and pretend
• Walter Bright (3/4) Oct 16 2018 We're not going to automatically close stale pull requests, nor are we g...
• tide (4/8) Oct 16 2018 Agreed, then there won't be those 5+ year old reports we can

notna <notna.remove.this ist-einmalig.de> writes:

another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests 
are also discussed here now and then... not sure if this [2] is 
known to many ppl?!

- [1] https://marc.info/?t=153926658700001&r=1&w=2
- [2] https://github.com/probot/stale

"Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:

On 10/16/18 4:16 PM, notna wrote:
 another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests are 
 also discussed here now and then... not sure if this [2] is known to 
 many ppl?!
 
 - [1] https://marc.info/?t=153926658700001&r=1&w=2
 - [2] https://github.com/probot/stale


development idea I've ever seen.

"If we didn't fix the issue, then it must've magically fixed itself."

"Let's decrease our bugcount by closing bugs whether they've fixed or not."

Stupidest, most obviously bad idea ever.

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:10:38PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
 On 10/16/18 4:16 PM, notna wrote:
 another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests
 are also discussed here now and then... not sure if this [2] is
 known to many ppl?!
 
 - [1] https://marc.info/?t=153926658700001&r=1&w=2
 - [2] https://github.com/probot/stale

 

 development idea I've ever seen.
 
 "If we didn't fix the issue, then it must've magically fixed itself."
 
 "Let's decrease our bugcount by closing bugs whether they've fixed or
 not."
 
 Stupidest, most obviously bad idea ever.

+1.  "If we can't fix the problem, let's just close our eyes and pretend
it doesn't exist. It makes our bug count go down, so our software
quality must be magically improving!"

"It's been 10 years since we were unable to fix this bug, therefore
let's define it out of existence. We only fix easy problems, hard
problems don't exist in our universe."

If only software development were this easy!

Sadly, and scarily, this practice is often encountered in "enterprise"
projects, where managers are fixated on flawed metrics like bugcount to
the point of blinding themselves to the actual condition of the code.
It's the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand, at its finest.


T

-- 
Who told you to swim in Crocodile Lake without life insurance??

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 10/16/2018 1:16 PM, notna wrote:
 [...]

We're not going to automatically close stale pull requests, nor are we going to 
arbitrarily close old unfixed bug reports.

tide <tide tide.tide> writes:

On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 22:18:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 10/16/2018 1:16 PM, notna wrote:
 [...]

 We're not going to automatically close stale pull requests, nor 
 are we going to arbitrarily close old unfixed bug reports.

Agreed, then there won't be those 5+ year old reports we can 
point to when an issue gets posted about on the forums and 
someone tells them to file a bug report.