Validating the sweep against live data before enabling it turned up two ways it
would have aged current reports.
#6563 filled the form's version field with 1.0.0 and named the real build,
v1.17.13, further down in the reproduction steps. 1.0.0 shipped, so the
published-tag check could not catch it, and the report would have been swept as
seventeen minors old. Age now comes from the newest released version mentioned
anywhere in the body: a report cannot be older than the newest build it names.
Filtering to published versions keeps Node versions and window sizes out.
Reading the whole body also let feature requests in, and "does it still
reproduce" is a question only a defect report can answer, so the sweep now
requires the bug label.
The target count is unchanged at 160, but the membership is not: six typo'd
reports and seven feature requests left, and old reports whose only version
evidence was in prose came in.
65% of the open tracker has never had a reply, and 160 open bug reports name a
release nine or more minors back — old enough that nobody can say whether the
symptom survived. Leaving them open costs the reports that can be acted on;
closing them on age alone would be a guess dressed up as triage.
So: ask, wait 21 days, close only what nobody answered. A close is "not planned"
with reopening invited, and any comment after the ask — from anyone — takes the
issue back out of the sweep. Severity labels (data-loss, security, crash) and
anything a maintainer already replied to never enter it at all, because a bot
must not time out a judgement a human already made.
The version check is against the published tag list, not the version format. A
dry run first targeted six issues reporting "1.7.18", "1.7.13" and "1.7.10":
1.7.x only ever reached 1.7.0, so those are dropped digits from 1.17.x — current
releases that parse cleanly as eleven-minor-old ones. Six current reports would
have been swept as ancient.
Posting stays behind the STALE_SWEEP_ENABLED repository variable, so merging
this cannot start commenting on its own.
yhh