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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:36 PM Otto Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
> > > >
> >

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