On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Robert Varga <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17/05/17 21:11, Andrew Grimberg wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I am not sure I like auto-abandon, two main reasons being:
>
> 1) I do have a bunch of patches that I mean to return to, but are low
> priority right now. I certainly would not like them disappearing from my
> dashboard, although that would be okay if there was a 'My Abandoned
> Changes' view.
>
> 2) We were bitten by 'abandon' before, where a patch was abandoned while
> it was waiting for dust to settle on after a release. The end result was
> a bug report for something that should have been fixed for 6+ months and
> a wasted day digging through history to understand where the fix went
> missing. Bug tracking should help here, but BZ is simply awful for
> tracking things to be delivered to multiple branches.
>
> At any rate, 6 weeks is definitely too aggresive.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>

I agree with Robert. I too use DRAFTs and old patches that I eventually get
back to  as they are low priority at the moment. Auto abandon will make us
forget about these low priority work in progress.

Thanh
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