I totally agree. If you have reached out to an author and there has been no response for either a bug fix or a feature that you want, then feel free to take it over. Just be polite about it and make sure it is clear to everyone what you are doing.
- Bobby On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:19 PM Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have seen some old pull requests for bugfix and new feature going to be > stale. Some of us tried to ping to author several times but not respond in > some months. For new feature we may have to wait for authors, but for > bugfix waiting authors means we are aware of the bug but we don't fix the > bug because of credit which doesn't make sense to me if we should wait for > months. > > So IMHO at least we may want to handle inactive bugfix pull requests not > too late, Maybe creating new PR addressing same thing without retaining > commits, or taking over PR via retaining commits. If possible it may be > ideal to take over inactive but valuable pull requests with retaining > commits. > > What do you think about it? And does some of us know about any issues > including license, authorship, or so if someone takes over inactive pull > request with retaining their credit (commits)? > > Thanks, > Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) >
