Automatically close issues that have been open for more than 6 months
without an assignee and without a linked merge request. Security-labeled
issues are excluded.
The motivation:
- Issues tend to stay open indefinitely under the implicit assumption that
someone will eventually pick them up. In practice this rarely happens.
- The backlog keeps growing, making it harder to see what is actually
being worked on.
- The number of contributors who turn an issue into a merge request is
very small relative to the number of issues filed.
- The goal is to keep the issue tracker focused on work that is actively
in progress, not as a wishlist.
- Hopefully this encourages a more active contribution culture: instead
of "I have reported it, someone will pick it up", reporters are nudged
to either own the fix or accept that it may not happen.
Resolves: #740
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos