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
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendaylight.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
