Existing j3 issues

[brianteeman]

Joomla 3 is now in security only mode which, as I understand it, means that there will be no more bug fixes or new features.

There are 120+ open issues flagged as being for J3 which will therefore not be addressed and there is no value in keeping them open.

I propose that

1. They are checked to make sure they do not apply to j4 and if they do they are relabelled
2. If they do not apply to J4 that they are closed with an appropriate message. Perhaps

Thank you for reporting this issue. Joomla 3 is now in security only mode and as this issue doesn't relate to Joomla 4 it has now been closed. If we are mistaken and this does apply to Joomla 4 please open a new issue (and reference this one if you wish) with updated details for testing in Joomla 4.

The same text could be used for any new issue created for Joomla 3.

@bembelimen @zero-24 @rdeutz

[zero-24]

Yes this is the plan. It had been done for the 3.10-dev PRs but I did not had the time yet to to througth the issues flagged as J3 relevant.

About new PRs we had such message for 2.5 when i remember correctly that was done via the bot in the past and pretty harsh (maybe my memmory fools me on this). Not sure whether that is a good way of doing it? What do you think? Could you propose a text we could use there? Basicly saying the same as for issues but targeted at PRs created against 3.10-dev. As long as its not a massive it could also be done manually i guess.

[zero-24]

so it's a so far better message to have an issue open for ages without any feedback,

Yes better than just close all issues without any comment or check.

did you really think that we have the work-power, to go thru all the open issues, and check if they are still relevant for j4

Yes when we share the work, When I understand brian correct he will start with it. Its also on my todo list also the JBS can work on that. So yes we can work on that step by step. You are right we dont have the work force to do a big bang and check everything today.

i hope you are right

I hope so too :)

[brianteeman]

Yes that is what I proposed. and its really not a big task.

Of course if people kept on top of things and didnt leave things open for years when clearly nothing will be done it would take even less time

[brianteeman]

Well in just a day I managed to reduce the list by 50% (and created a few pr in the process)

Its really not hard - you just need to stop looking at page 1 on github

[zero-24]

Yes thanks Brian 🎉 :)

[zero-24]

The PR for the issue tracker has been done here: joomla/jissues#1172 (comment)

[alikon]

thank you
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got rich 💵

[brianteeman]

Just think how much bettwer it would be if there were more people doing this

[brianteeman]

Just 24 left - I think someone else can complete this task ;)

[zero-24]

Great thanks Brian :-)