Hi Josep,

Thanks for bringing this up. I agree that we should clean it up. I think
that we should set up an automatic process to flag and then to close stale
pull requests. For instance, we could use a github action [1] for this. I
imagine that we could configure it to mark a pull request as stale after 60
days of inactivity and close it 30 days later if the author does not react.

[1] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/close-stale-issues

Cheers,
David

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:17 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:

> This is worthwhile, but can we use a bot for this? Many other projects do
> so already.
>
> Ismael
>
> On Thu, 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,
> >
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