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, > > > > -- > > [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 > > >