On 05/18/2017 02:24 AM, Robert Varga 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.

I figured folks would say that 6 weeks is too aggressive. That's why I'm
suggesting 6 months. If 6 months still seems too aggressive I would say
1 year but I really don't think a change that has been open for 1+
years, and just left to sit, is likely still viable. After all, as I
page through all the opens as I get back to ~2 months a large portion of
the changes are in 'Merge Conflict'. That obviously doesn't mean that
they can't be easily brought back to a point of being a mergeable state.

-Andy-

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Andrew J Grimberg
Lead, IT Release Engineering
The Linux Foundation

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