On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 02:41:26PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > Patches that are Waiting on Author and haven't had activity in months > -- traditionally they were set to Returned with Feedback. It seems the > feeling these days is to not lose state on them and just move them to > the next CF. I'm not sure that's wise, it ends up just filling up the > list with patches nobody's working on.
+1 for closing such patches as Returned with Feedback, for the same reasons Robert and Peter already stated. Note that I already closed such CF entries during the last commitfest, so hopefully there shouldn't be too much. Last time I used "both Waiting on Author and no activity from the author, since at least the 15th of the month" as the threshold to close such patches (although I closed them at the beginning of the next month), as it seems to be the usual (and informal) rule.