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[Name Lips]

This seems to happen to me all the time...

I'll get a siege, and I'll have a clear path into my fortress (albeit liberally sprinkled with traps), but the siegers just mill around near the edge of the map. They never attack.

I've had this happen for over a year before I get bored and try to send out some military dwarves to "bait" them into attacking, but they always just run up to the dwarves, kill them, and run back to their "milling around" location.

Is this a bug? Am I just not waiting long enough?

[zelpao]

There are a number of things that might have happened.
It depends on the civilization type whether or not they will march right in. (Humans linger on the edge more frequently)
It also depends on whether or not they are mounted. (Flying mounts are bugged I believe)
It can also be that the path to the fortress is being "blocked" somewhere. (Tree growth as well as pathing to the base may be the problem)
The last one I can think might have happened is that the leader has died upon entering the map. (Squads always stay by their leader)

[lemmily]

My suggestion would be to train up a squad of melee dwarves and a squad of marksdwarves and go annihilate them!

Or just use sheer numbers! (armed of course) and just make sure they all charge at once rather than in single numbers (this always claims some of my dwarves :[ )

Or you could try some kind of animal bomb alongside the dwarves?

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think there is definitely A.I. at work here, because humans seem to purposefully camp out, rather than going down your trap tunnel. Goblins are forcing you to exit, or do soemthing else.  Usually they will engage if they see and chase a dwarf, so try that

[Vehudur]

I think there is definitely A.I. at work here, because humans seem to purposefully camp out, rather than going down your trap tunnel. Goblins are forcing you to exit, or do soemthing else.  Usually they will engage if they see and chase a dwarf, so try that

Sacrificial cheesemaker.

[Loud Whispers]

I think there is definitely A.I. at work here, because humans seem to purposefully camp out, rather than going down your trap tunnel. Goblins are forcing you to exit, or do soemthing else.  Usually they will engage if they see and chase a dwarf, so try that

Humans refuse to go into dark areas. Which is why they apparently love above ground forts

Also, flying things only path to areas where they would be able to do so on foot. Saves your computer from exploding, though clowns don't care about this rule...

[Sus]

Happens quite often on my forts too. I think in case of human sieges, it seems to be their intended behavior.
Goblins, as noted, tend to stick around their leaders, even if said leaders should be dead but aren't registered as such.

There's a variety of ways to deal with this, from buildig marksdwarf fortifications near the "milling around" location (although this would have to be done in between sieges), waiting for a caravan to bait them, some sort of (magma) flooding device, to The Dwarven Way™:
Everybody's an Axedwarf now. CHAAAARGEEEE!!!