On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:03 PM 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. I'm in favour -- it's as much a reminder to reviewers/maintainers as it is to submitters (perhaps the message language could reflect that). We could also add a note to the message to encourage contributors to seek out assistance/review via IRC/lists, if they've fallen through the cracks and got no input at all. John > > Thoughts? > sage >
