[Engine-devel] [vdsm] stale gerrit patches

[Itamar Heim]

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
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>
> 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.