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

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.