[ovirt-devel] Abandoning old patches

[Tal Nisan]

Why did we choose 300 and 600? I think it's way too much, I'd go for 
emailing after 30 days and for abandoning after 60 days.
It's reversible anyway, abandoned patches can always be restored by the 
author.

On 09/05/2015 01:18 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Gerrit is our front yard, and we'd like to keep it clean, tidy, and 
> welcoming to newcommers.
>
> We have a jenkins job waiting to act as a roomba just waiting to be 
> switched on (thanks Eyal!).
> It will send out an email about patches being stale for over 300 days 
> and will force abandon patches stale over 600 old.
>
> What we need you to do:
> Go over your patches and make sure you haven't missed anything. If you 
> have a path that old that for some obscure reason still has merit, 
> just comment on it that it's still relevant to bump its last 
> modification date (or better yet - answer the review, rebase it, and 
> push for it to get merged).
>
> To search for such patches, you can use the "status:open age:300d" 
> search string in gerrit.
> So, e.g, for your own patches, you could use "status:open age:300d 
> owner:self", or as a quick link:
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+age:300d+owner:self
>
>
> Thanks,
> Your friendly neighbourhood cleanup patrol
>
>
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