That sounds good to me as well.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 8:57 AM Suhail, Ahmar <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 to this, we did this for Hadoop last year and now close stale PR's
> after 100 days of no activity. Iceberg also has something similar.
>
> On 25/02/2026, 16:55, "Aaron Niskode-Dossett via dev" <
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not
> click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and know
> the content is safe.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Great idea.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM Arnav Balyan <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi team,
> >
> > I noticed Parquet java has some stale PRs from a few years ago that have
> > not seen activity in a long time. It can make it harder to tell which PRs
> > are currently active and ready for review, and may add maintenance
> > overhead.
> >
> > Would it make sense to introduce a stale PR policy? For example, marking
> a
> > PR as inactive after 3 months of no activity, with 1 warning at 2 months
> to
> > inform the author that it would be auto closed if there is no response.
> >
> > Contributors could always reopen their PR if they plan to continue the
> > work. This could make the project more clear and friendly for newcomers
> and
> > reduce maintenance overhead for maintainers.
> >
> > Would love to know what you think.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arnav
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Aaron Niskode-Dossett, Data Engineering -- Etsy
>
>
>
>

Reply via email to