Close 100+ Old Inactive Discussion Issues

[FourGames]

• There are over 100 discussion issues with 0 comments that are over a year old. Should they be closed as stale? This represents about 1% of all open issues.
• If you filter for fewer than 3 comments, the number rises to 500+. Fewer than 6 comments brings it to over 1000, about 10% of all issues.
• The goal should be 'Inbox Zero' for issues.
  

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[YYF233333]

Based on my experience in #51573, some (actually quite a lot) stale issues have actually been resolved, but they weren't automatically closed because they weren't linked to the corresponding PRs. If we can prove that these issues no longer exist in the current version, we can close them. Another set of issues have been reported multiple times, but the discussions only took place in one of them. I think we could link the other empty issues to the relevant one and then close them.

The main challenge is how to prove that these issues have been resolved or are duplicates, and this task is actually quite labor-intensive.

[FourGames]

Thanks for explaining! I assumed old inactive issues were unimportant, but I see now that verifying and linking them is necessary. Appreciate the insight!

[tetrapod00]

If you find resolved ones, feel free to bump them with a link to the PR that implemented the feature, and they can be closed by a maintainer. Resolved discussions should be closed. And if there's an old discussion with little or no comments that has been superseded by a complete technical proposal, those can be closed too in some cases. Feel free to link a proposal issue to bump the discussion, and it might be closed as superseded/consolidated into the more technical proposal.

However when I checked for closable issues a few months back (and I at least skimmed all 40 pages), there were only a handful of old discussions that were clearly closable by these standards. Almost all the rest are still valid ideas to be discussed.

Edit: oops, I misread this to be about these discussions 😄

[FourGames]

Thanks for the clarification! I didn’t realize there were specific standards for closing. I just assumed old inactive ones weren’t important. I’ll keep this in mind and link relevant items where I can. I guess this applies to both issues and discussions. Appreciate the insight!