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Re: [Ietf-and-github] Closing issues

"Christopher Wood" <caw@heapingbits.net> Sat, 02 November 2019 00:06 UTC

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:06:25 -0700
From: Christopher Wood <caw@heapingbits.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ietf-and-github] Closing issues
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This one happened to me today: an editor unilaterally closed a github 
> issue I raised.
> 
> The specific subject matter isn't so important for this list, but I 
> thought it was an interesting problem: Who should be able to close 
> issues?

This will certainly vary across WGs, so the best we can probably do is as the current text in [1] suggests:

   "Chairs MUST provide guidance on who is permitted to close an issue and under what conditions."

Best,
Chris (chair hat on)

[1] https://ietf-gitwg.github.io/using-github/draft-ietf-git-using-github.html#rfc.section.4.1.2

> In my case, a WG chair concurred with the closing, but I sincerely 
> doubt that he weighed in ahead of time.

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