Re: Re closing of issues and WG support

> On 10 Sep 2025, at 19:16, Gregg Vanderheiden <gregg@vanderheiden.us> wrote:
> 
> if you mean chairs should be empowered to close issues unilaterally using their own judgement when they feel the issue is closed, without having to bring each item up for WG vote — I would agree.  

Yes I do!

> I would say however that it would be good to ping the person who brought the issue forward as part of the process though so they are aware that their suggestion had been accepted/modified/rejected. 
> G 


Good point, yes I'd say that would be good courtesy to do. Possibly GitHub's default behaviour of emailing the issue-opener for each comment (which includes the closing one unless user changed settings) would suffice?

Best,
Hidde