Hi Josep, Sounds like an important task for the community & project.
I would be happy to help in reaching out to the PR authors. Thanks, Kirk > On Jun 1, 2023, at 9:24 AM, Josep Prat <josep.p...@aiven.io.INVALID> wrote: > > Hi Kafka devs, > > Seeing that we have over a 1000 PRs and that we want to try to keep the > number low. I was thinking if it would make sense to go through the oldest > PRs and ping the authors to see if they want/can to go back to them and > finish them. If they don't or we can't get any answer, we could close the > PRs after 2 to 3 weeks. We can create a label to mark these PRs in case we > want to go back to them easily. If the author, however, states that they > are still interested in bringing the PR to completion, we the committers > should do our best to review them. > As an example, we currently have 344 PRs that were created before January > 1st 2020 (not included), to put this in perspective of Kafka versions, > these happened before or at the time of 2.4.0. > If this is something that people would generally agree to, we could > organize a task force to go over these PRs created before January 1st 2020 > and ping the authors. I would volunteer to be part of this task. > > Best, > > -- > [image: Aiven] <https://www.aiven.io> > > *Josep Prat* > Open Source Engineering Director, *Aiven* > josep.p...@aiven.io | +491715557497 > aiven.io <https://www.aiven.io> | <https://www.facebook.com/aivencloud> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiven/> <https://twitter.com/aiven_io> > *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* > Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin > Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen > Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B
