https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features What I mean is, beyond the GitHub settings it has, if it offered PR pruning ( if that were possible ). Seems silly that everyone has to roll their own.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 3:05 PM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Otto > > I'm not clear on what you mean. But here we're talking about our > communities usage of Github in particular as a convenient vehicle to > support contributions. The ASF/Git (gitbox) is a different animal. > > Thanks > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:02 PM Otto Fowler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > What would be nice is if this could be part of the ASF official .yml for > git > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 2:42 PM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Team, > > > > > > We've discussed it in various forums but I want to formally move to > > > taking action on our PR situation. As of a couple hours ago we had > > > 280 or so open PRs. Many many many of these are quite old (two or > > > more years). These aren't just abandoned PRs because they were not > > > good enough to be clear. There are actually a lot of good and > > > interesting things in here. I think though we simply cannot keep up > > > with the PRs that come in. The most difficult appear to be less about > > > fixing bugs and more on adding features. Anyway, we clearly get a lot > > > of PRs and we clearly close a lot of PRs but many remain unaddressed. > > > Other communities such as Apache Spark [1],[2] have provided an auto > > > close mechanism. It is intended to keep the PR queue tidy and not > > > just go endlessly without a response. > > > > > > I am planning to implement the same with a 180 day auto-stale/closure > > > using the same github/ci workflow [3] based on github action [4]. You > > > can see the results of this here [5]. > > > > > > If someone disagrees please share a workable alternative that doesn't > > > leave the PRs or those that submitted them hanging indefinitely which > > > you are willing to implement. > > > > > > [1] > > > > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Handling-stale-PRs-td8015i20.html#a9684 > > > [2] > > > > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Closing-stale-PRs-with-a-GitHub-Action-td28477.html > > > [3] > > > > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/.github/workflows/stale.yml > > > [4] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/close-stale-issues > > > [5] > > > > https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+label%3AStale > > > > > > Thanks > > > Joe > > > >
