Hi,

I am wondering if we can do anything about the large number of outstanding 
gerrit patches? There are patches up to a year old and also quite some 
patches that already have +1's, -1's but without any further activity. And 
finally there are some patches where the patch creator does not seem to 
respond anymore to fix the last nits.

If I decide to review something then I naturally take something from the 
first page, maybe the second, but I constantly feel bad about all the other 
patches lying around. On the other hand I don't want to invest review time 
in patches that will be abandoned anyways because they are outdated or are 
just experiments.

Not sure whats best to do, maybe everyone on the GWT team should revisit 
their old outstanding patches? Or maybe take 1-2 hours per week to 
exclusively review other peoples patches? Can experiments be put into a 
different view inside Gerrit so that people focusing on getting things 
reviewed for master are not distracted? Should GWT have a policy saying 
that everything older than x month without activity will be abandoned 
automatically? Can we somehow take ownership of patches in Gerrit if the 
original author does not respond anymore but the patch is almost done?

Would be bad if Gerrit becomes the new old issue tracker but just for 
outstanding patches.

-- J.

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