On Freitag, 10. März 2023 20:55:00 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:19 AM David Hurka <david.hu...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:40:47 AM CET Méven wrote: > > > We could use a "stale" label for MR to allow maintainers to see the > > > script's results. > > > And even a "closing-soon" label, for MR not-update in the last 12 months. > > > > Is there a rule that all open merge requests need care? > > I would expect that it is enough to label an open merge request as “stale”. > > > > Merge requests are usually closed because they are bad. > > Stale merge requests are probably good, otherwise they would have been > > closed > > intentionally. > > > > I recall in the last few months someone mentioning a MR in #kde-devel that > had been approved and just never merged, and had been sitting like that for > months. > All it took to get merged was a reminder by way of comment on the MR to get > it merged as the original author of the change was no longer around. > > So yes, there is definitely value in reminders and caring for those MRs. > > I guess the difference here is between higher activity projects - whose MRs > are likely to be more well looked after - and those with lower activity. > Projects with lower activity tend to involve developers who look after many > different projects, and will therefore benefit from reminders. Those with > higher activity are much less likely to see value from it. > > Closing of MRs though is something that should only be done after review by > the developers who run the project.
Maybe in a semi-automated way such that the developer can mark the MR in a specific way and which closes it after a grace period when there is no more activity. -- Regards Thomas Baumgart ------------------------------------------------------------- A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. (Serena Williams) -------------------------------------------------------------
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