+1. it is very easy to restore the patches if needed.

We did something similar in NetVirt and Genius already where we abandoned
gerrits with no activity for four weeks with this message:
"abandoned-inactivity: This gerrit was abandoned due to inactivity for more
than four weeks. Please restore when ready."

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 I think we should do it. I had spent good 1 hour to look at lot of age
> old openflowplugin patches to abandon them.
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Grimberg <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Greetings folks,
>>
>> As I'm trying to figure out the logistics related to migrating ODL from
>> our current identity backend to The Linux Foundation Identity (LFID)
>> backend I've been investigating a lot of different things related to
>> Gerrit. One of the things I noticed is that we have a lot of changes
>> that are old and still open.
>>
>> We've got changes still open going all the way back to 2013! I would
>> like to put a proposal out that we auto-abandon changes that are >6
>> months in age and in all honesty I would like to do it for any change
>> that is >6 weeks old but I figured that 6 months was a good starting
>> point.
>>
>> Please note that this is age of last activity, not age of initial change
>> or last patch update. So an old change that happens to have regular use
>> for some reason (such as trigger testing) via comments should not be
>> affected by this, even if they are, it's an abandon and not an actual
>> removal from the system so they won't disappear, they'll just be removed
>> from the status:open search.
>>
>> I'm proposing that this change happen after we finally get Carbon out
>> the door as it's going to require a restart to Gerrit to have the
>> configuration updated to start this.
>>
>> -Andy-
>>
>> --
>> Andrew J Grimberg
>> Lead, IT Release Engineering
>> The Linux Foundation
>>
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> Anil
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