Re: [Engine-devel] [vdsm] stale gerrit patches

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "David Caro" <dcaroest(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt;, vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:47:47 PM > Subject: Re: [vdsm] stale gerrit patches > > On 09/23/2013 01:46 PM, David Caro wrote: >> On Mon 23 Sep 2013 12:36:58 PM CEST, Itamar Heim wrote: >>> we have some very old gerrit patches. >>> I'm for abandoning patches which were not touched over 60 days (to >>> begin with, I think the number should actually be lower). >>> they can always be re-opened by any interested party post their closure. >>> >>> i.e., looking at gerrit, the patch list should actually get attention, >>> and not be a few worth looking at, with a "lot of old patches" >>> >>> thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Itamar >>> _______________________________________________ >>> vdsm-devel mailing list >>> vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org >>> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel >> >> It might helpful to have a cron-like script that checks the age of the >> posts and first notifies the sender, the reviewers and the maintainer, >> and if the patch is not updated in a certain period just abandons it. >> > > yep - warn after X days via email to just owner (or all subscribed to > the patch), and close if no activity for X+14 days or something like that. This will be annoying. And there are patches that pending with good reason.

Maintainers can close patches that are no interest nor progress. Alon