[Development] Handling of Needs More Info issues in Jira

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 08:01:13AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>On Monday, 2 November 2020 05:24:45 PST Jason McDonald wrote:
>> There may be such a tool, but if there is it presumably isn't functioning
>> anymore (unless it's definition of "too long" is more than two years).
>
>I think it was supposed to be run manually every 6 months or so, closing 
>entries that were more than 3 months without interaction (or so). The "run 
>manually" might be the problem...
>
iirc, said tool was implemented as two (?) "cron jobs" running daily (?) 
entirely inside jira. the timeouts for the heads-up and subsequent 
closure were measured in weeks.

alex' announcement is here: 
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2018-August/030752.html

dunno what went wrong ...