No, I don't think there's any irritation Brett, or any implication
that you were not being helpful. It's just highlighted something that
probably needs to be discussed and formalized a bit.

Michael


On 21 July 2013 19:25, Brett Walker <brett.wal...@geometryit.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry if this has irritated people.
>
> The creator of the pull request had not responded to your constructive
> comments for some time. (There were incompatible API changes and no unit
> tests.) If the changes were important enough to the contributor then I would
> have felt that a faster response would have occurred.
>
> It is easy for Pull Request to be reopened. This is also true for Issues in
> JIRA.
>
> Maybe this will motivate the contributor to act upon the issue.
>
> What are other peoples thoughts?
>
> Brett
>
> ________________________________
> From: Andrea Aime [andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it]
> Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 6:15 PM
> To: Geotools-Devel list
> Subject: [Geotools-devel] The tension between keeping the house clean and
> trying to accept as much contributions as possible
>
> Hi,
> this morning I've noticed that a couple of pull requests were closed due to
> "5 months of inactivity" https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/120
> At first I thought it was the original author pissed because I did not have
> a look at the pull request for such a long time, but then I've noticed that
> it was Brett closing the pull request.
>
> Now, I believe I understand the rationale for closing the pull: it has been
> there for a long time, there is no activity, it just looks bad and moreover
> it does not look like it's going anywhere.
>
> At the same time, in jira we have tickets that are 7+ years old:
> http://jira.codehaus.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20GEOT%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20ASC
> Also those are not getting anywhere, but I guess they are more tolerable
> because they are not as much "in your face" as pull requests.
>
> Also in GeoServer we have a bunch of pull requests that are just sitting
> there moving nowhere, mostly because of lack of tests, some because they
> have unresolved issues:
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pulls
>
> Given that it's clear between pull requests and jira tickets there is much
> more work than we can possibly handle, and given that funding keeps on
> making us use working hours on other topics, what do you feel it's the
> appropriate course of action?
>
> It seems bad to me to close a pull request that's incomplete or needs fixes,
> because there is also good work in there, at the same time, if the original
> author does not fix the pull, who will?
> Maybe we should link the pull request from the associated jira ticket, and
> then close the pull, so that others might take over later?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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