Re: automatically closing stale pull requests

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 7:03 AM Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Should we enable a plugin like this?
>
>         https://github.com/probot/stale
>
> It will let you configure a period of inactivity before a PR gets a
> message like
>
>           This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has
>           not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further
>           activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.
>
> and another period before the PR is closed.
>
> We have a bazillion stale open PRs.  :(
>
> My thinking is that ideally we really want something like this so tha
> thte open PRs reflect a real work queue.  On the other hand, we also have
> a big backlog of open PRs that have valid fixes (or, indirectly, bug
> reports) that we probably need to go through and groom before
> actually closing PRs.

There may also be issues in "Need Review" that need changed back to
"New". For those that use Github has the SSOT for what needs reviewed,
it could cause issues to become lost as I would think everyone
frequently filters out "Need review" when searching for issues to
fix/triage.

-- 
Patrick Donnelly



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