Re: [Ietf-and-github] Closing issues

["Martin Thomson" <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 11:06, Christopher Wood wrote:
>    "Chairs MUST provide guidance on who is permitted to close an issue 
> and under what conditions."

I wanted to point out that this is the critical text, however most repositories don't operate under IETF Working Group processes.  Unless the Working Group formally assumes control over a repository, the owner of the repository can do as they please with it.

There is also advice in that document that advises chairs to give editors considerable latitude in how they manage document repositories.  It's only in the case where the issues in a repository serve as a formal record of the state of Working Group process that you need a formal process around the closing of issues.

Opened https://github.com/ietf-gitwg/using-github/issues/27 to look at making the on-ramp a little more ramp-like.  I think that people starting the process probably won't want to concern themselves with formalizing every aspect of the way that tool works.  But once they start depending on some feature, that is when strict rules need to be in place.