Re: Reducing the number of open issues

[Dan Eble]

> On Mar 17, 2021, at 15:10, Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> there are currently 1066 open issues at LilyPond's GitLab repository:
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues
> 
> I'd like to reduce this number: In the short term, I propose to close
> issues with ~Patch::abandoned (69 open issues) and ~Patch::needs_work
> (73 open issues) labels that come from patch tracking with SourceForge.
> They will stay around (including their links to Rietveld, as long as it
> stays alive), but not artificially increase the number of "issues".
> The caveat is that I remember some real problem reports with proposed
> patches, that were abandoned during review. I'll keep those issues open
> because they might need fixing either way.
> 
> Any objections to this plan?

I only ask that if a ticket tracks a patch that I originally proposed, you 
assign the ticket to me before closing it.
— 
Dan