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Triage is what happens when you first look at a new ticket and decide what to do with it, any encounter/interaction after that is not a triage.

If maintainers feel like they need to close tickets only to keep order, than that's a problem with the tooling: tickets should only be closed if they're malformed, solved, or (arguably) wontfix.

[marcosdumay]

> If maintainers feel like they need to close tickets only to keep order, than that's a problem with the tooling

Oh, yes. Yes it is!

I think you were downvoted because the first part of your answer is wrong, but this one hits right on the mark.

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I've always interpreted "triage" as the first response whenever something comes up (paralleling the medical term were it's from), is that not how it is?

[Jenk]

Priority is a constantly moving slide.