I have the following question.
Often in our project issues stay in progress forever.
To resolve this we would like to introduce a new workflow where if a JIRA issue has been idle for 2 weeks it will automatically have its status set to Postponed.
How can this be implemented in JIRA? I checked the column constraints on the board, but there is no constraint related to time.
If we ignore the arguments how good a workflow and its management is raised by @shippi the solution to this question is explained here.
Shortly said Jira has ability to execute scripts , they can also be scheduled and executed on regular basis. What needs to be done is a script to be written and scheduled that every day checks how long an issue has been idle and set the appropriate status.