El dilluns, 6 de març de 2023, a les 15:18:42 (CET), Carl Schwan va escriure: > Hi, > > We should never close a MR automatically. Only a maintainer of a project > or the author itself should close a MR. The decision if a MR should be > closed or not is often depending on a context (e.g. a MR required another > MR to be merged first and it is taking more time than expected, the > author is busy with other things but will eventually come back to it, ...) > and a script is unable to see this. > > I do not mind poking people semi-regularly (every 6 months or so), but again > this should probably be done manually and with a small personalized message > for example: "Hi, I really like this work, do you intent to continue > working on it or can I take over" than a generic message that feels fake. > > I really hate communicating with robots instead of with humans and I really > see the trends of trying to automatize all our interaction with dumb robots > and chat bots in our society really worrying. > > If we want to automatize, we should instead try to list the stale MRs and > maybe send the list to the mailing list once a month so that people are > reminded about them and take a look at which one they may be able to unlock.
We already have that, they get posted to https://invent.kde.org/teams/gardening/gitlab/-/issues weekly. What i forgot is what i did to be notified of it by email ^_^ Cheers, Albert > > Cheers, > Carl > > > ------- Original Message ------- > > Le dimanche 5 mars 2023 à 11:13 AM, AnnoyingRains <annoyingra...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > For a short amount of time now, there have been some small-scale > > trials of replying to old MRs with a reminder, and suggesting that the > > author closes the MR if it is either no longer needed or if it needs > > more work and the author does not have time for it. > > > > This has appeared to have a positive impact on the state of KDE > > software from this (albeit limited) trial. Some MRs have had renewed > > interest, others have admitted that they had forgotten that the MR > > even existed. > > > > We did consider closing MRs if there was no activity after our ping > > message. We are no longer planning on doing this, as it is more > > destructive than helpful. All decisions on if a MR should be closed > > will be left with the maintainers and the person who opened the MR. > > > > So, we need a proper discussion about this, should we send these > > reminder messages at all? If so, how old should an MR be before > > sending this reminder? Should closing the MR even be suggested in the > > message? > > > > If your specific project does not play nicely with this programme, > > please let us know and we can add it to the list of exclusions on our > > KDE Community page. > > > > I need your input, > > - Kye Potter, KDE Gardening
