An easier fix here is just to put a close action into the commit message: Closes #nnn
e.g. https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/ad249424814836bd00f47931258ad58bfefb24fd / https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/1046 On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 5:40 AM Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > I think the fact that they pile up is because our merge strategy means we > don't actually merge using the PR's we use for review so there's nothing > codified in the workflow to close them out when a ticket's done. > > An easy fix would be to change our merge strategy and use the merge button > on PR's to merge things in so they auto-close. :) > > (/grinding my axe) > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Paulo Motta wrote: > > Thanks for doing this Stefan. > > The fact that PRs are abandoned and piling up on github demonstrates a > hygiene problem and creates a bad user experience to newcomers which are > accustomed to the Github workflow. I'm supportive of any initiative to > improve this > > I think starting labelling PRs manually and then looking into ways to > automate this would be a good improvement from the status quo. > > >
