Issue tracker review [was: PMCs: any Hackathon requests? (deadline 11 October)]

[Nathan Hartman <ha...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:13 AM Julian Foad <ju...@apache.org> wrote:
> Nathan Hartman wrote:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-1722 "svn
> > diff may missreport a revision as the working copy."
>
> Errm... last reviewed 9 years ago.  Is it really what it says it is?
>
> Sadly, we have hundreds of unreviewed (or not recently reviewed) open
> issues.  Some are misleadingly labeled "bite-sized" but are really
> symptoms of deeper problems.  Can we take this opportunity to do
> something about that?  Like, maybe start bringing one old issue to the
> dev list for review each week?

I'll be happy to do that.

I like the idea of tackling one a week because that is manageable and
allows developers and interested parties enough time to look at the
issue and give their opinions.

SVN-1722 can be the first one. I'll start looking into it myself a
little later today.