On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 02:07, Adrien Lecharpentier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've spent some time lately on looking at the pull-requests on
> jenkinsci/jenkins repository. For some old, inactive pull-requests I've
> pinged the authors and for some, added the proposed-for-close label.
>
> However, the label description nor any prior discussion on the
> mailing-list are mentioning our policy about this (proposed-for-close)
> label. And I'd like to offer one: I'd like, as for the ready-for-merge
> label, to introduce a period of time, after which with no response from the
> author, we close the pull-request. I was thinking about 72 or 96hr.
>

Definitely sounds good to clean up some stale/dead PRs but I find 96h a bit
too short. (people can be off for few days/weeks and 1 or 2 weeks for 2 yo
old PR will not hurt more)
I have implemented something similar in some plugins using stale action see
configuration here
https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/blob/master/.github/workflows/stale.yml
(tool here: https://github.com/actions/stale)
with this configuration PRs 365 days old are marked stale then after 30
days they are closed.



>
> This might seem a bit harsh, but my idea is to try to keep the
> pull-requests list healthy. And when we have no consensus on the PR or no
> response from the authors, it's healthier to close the pull-request. The
> work done is not lost, the PR can be reopen later when the author is more
> available to attend to it.
>
> Also, in case the authors respond, we can simply put the label stalled
> (for others to take over the PR). We could also put the PR back into draft,
> but all members have enough permission to do that on others pull-requests,
> but we could use the work-in-progress. Of course, after another period of
> time, with no more activities, we should close the PR anyway.
>
> Also, there is no mention of those labels, what they means and how we use
> it on our contribution guide [1]. Should we add a mention of those label on
> it?
>
> -- Adrien
>
> [1]: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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