In case anyone is interested in looking these are the PRs that are
currently inactive for about 2 months:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pulls?page=5&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated

My suggestion here is that those should have got a comment
notification at the 1 month mark and then if nothing happened in the
next month up to now those PRs would get closed automatically right
around now.

In many cases I would expect that the 1 month ping would have
triggered something to happen like someone might review it or the
contributor might close it or fix something or reply to some question
that was previously unanswered.

Most of those I think are going nowhere as it stands. Some are waiting
for a reviewer that isn't going to come. Some were just experiments
(e.g. one of mine) that can be closed and then reopened in future if
needed.

Most of them are in the author's turn state but it is not always clear
if the author understands that or actually knows how to do what is
needed. If they did understand and know how to do it then I think it
is reasonable to say that if they haven't done it by now then they are
just not actively working on it and we may as well close it until they
do want to come back to it.

To put it a different way: if we don't close those then what do we
expect to happen with them? I certainly don't think that anyone is
going to periodically go that far back through the PR backlog and
check whether anything can be done to help them out so what benefit do
they bring that they would not bring if they were closed?

--
Oscar

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