A stale PR is defined by a policy -- for example, 60 days without any movement on the PR.
Stale PRs would be bad experiences in general for community members, but after no movement for 60 days, this is just about cleaning up PRs that are not getting feedback from the committers or PR submitters. -s On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:58 AM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi - > > I was pointing out a potential community problem which is what we are > about here in the Incubator. > > On Sep 12, 2018, at 10:27 AM, Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > A stale PR has not activity for some length of time. > https://github.com/probot/stale > > The policy file example shown on that link it pretty easy to follow, so > I'll avoid pasting a wall of text into this email. > > This seems like a pretty valuable and much-needed piece of management-y > software. Unfortunately, I was informed Apache Infra could not grant write > perms to this GitHub plugin. I'd like to understand how we decide which > plugins on GitHub get whitelisted? > > > The Incubator does not make these decisions. The Apache Infrastructure > team makes these. > > You can contact Infra - https://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact > > Regards, > Dave > > > -s > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:39 AM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi - > > What if the stale PR is from a new community member who is trying to make > a contribution? Those should be handled by a committer with direct > discussion. > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 11, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Hagay Lupesko <lupe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Im also interested in this PR policy automation. > > For Apache MXNet, there is no automation that I am aware of that handles > that. And it can be super helpful in handling stale PRs... > > Hagay > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 12:07 Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Folks! > I wanted a policy-driven approach to automatically label, comment, and > close inactive/stale PRs. Probot does this, but need some write perms to > GitHub. > > https://github.com/probot/stale > > I just learned this is not possible per > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17005 > > How are other projects solving this problem? And why is probot not on > > say > > an approved list of GitHub integrations? > > -s > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
