Re closing of issues and WG support

Hi all,

In Chuck's email “AGWG:  Please review proposal to close Silver issues” we are asked to support closing of a set of issues.

I wanted to open a bit of a meta discussion, hence a new thread.

As an AGWG member, I appreciate being given this opportunity, but I would propose we change the default for closing issues, such that issues can be closed without requesting WG feedback. 

Personally, I would trust our chairs, editors and others with issue-closing rights to close issues as they see fit. They, unlike me, have the best context to make such decisions, and can describe that in the closing comment of the issue.

I don't feel this would jeopardise individual WG members' ability to show they disagree: we could even build that in explicitly and decide that a request to re-open is honoured by default. Many other groups within and outside W3C close issues this way, and GitHub allows for it well, as it shows who did the closing and invites the closer to write a comment that explains.

In other words, I would like us to change to issue-closing by default, with the invite to easily reopen if desired, instead of the current process where the WG is asked for support beforehand.

Those are just my two cents, I am curious to hear the thoughts of other WG members and chairs,

Best,

Hidde de Vries