Re: Poll: Auto-closing "old" tickets

Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> Wed, 20 May 2026 10:58:23 -0400
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Greetings,

On 5/6/2026 12:32 PM, Bowen, Rich wrote:
> After some chat on Slack, I wanted to have a poll here on the idea of closing “old” tickets, for various definitions of old. The Slack conversation was in favor, but as that is a small subset of the entire project, I’m hoping to get a broader consensus here. There are several questions:
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> 1) Do you want to auto-close tickets that are filed against 2.0? (Data: There’s only 19 of them. The newest of these is from 2009. https://httpd.rcbowen.com/httpd-20x-open-bugs.html)


What do you mean by "closing tickets"?


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> The goal here is to make our ticket backlog less daunting, and more appealing to contributors who want to pick meaningful stuff to work on.
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