[TYPO3-core] Issue closing policy

[Tolleiv Nietsch]

Hi,

some might have seen that I cleaned up few old issues in the Core 
bugtracker yesterday. And I closed at least one issue ( 
http://forge.typo3.org/issues/19346 ) which might still be relevant - 
and this raised the questions whether it was ok to close it or not.

Besides that I'm currently preparing to write a short "Friendly Ghost" 
doku, so I though that's a good point to have a discussion on what the 
policy should be to close a (inactive) bug.

My suggestion would be the following:

- Close bugs with the status "Needs feedback" if they got no attention 
during the last 30days (maybe 90days).

- Bugs with the status "New" or "Accepted" should be checked every once 
in a while to see if feedback is needed or if people made false patch 
promises - if that's the case the bug should be set to "Needs feedback", ...

The policy is short to keep it simple and I'd also suggest to be strict 
with this. The reason for this suggestion
is that in my experience (e.g. with the TemplaVoila bugtracker) people 
(even Core-Devs) usually don't lookup old issues to continue these, they 
start a new issue once they start working on something. And therefore 
I'd be pracmatic and would prefer to get/keep the list as short as 
possible even if some existing problems might not appear in it.

So just let me know if you'd prefer modifications or if my suggestion is 
fine.

Cheers,
Tolleiv
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