[gdal-dev] Adding a CI "stale" workflow for pull requests without activity

[Even Rouault]

Le 18/04/2024 à 23:54, Andrew C Aitchison via gdal-dev a écrit :
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
>
>> I'm proposing in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9693 that we add 
>> a CI "stale" workflow for pull requests without activity. It is 
>> mostly a copy&paste from QGIS similar workflow with the following 
>> changes:
>> - restrict the scope to pull requests only and not tickets (although 
>> we could potentially also do that for tickets that are in the 
>> "awaiting feedback" state)
>> - increase the period to tag a pull request as "stale" to 28 days 
>> without activity. The stale bot adds a message in the PR explaining 
>> that, and that they have an extra delay of 14 days to make it 
>> progress, otherwise it will be automatically closed. So basically a 
>> PR without activity for 6 weeks will be automatically closed. I think 
>> this is a fair delay.
>>
>> The rationale for that is that it makes the cognitive load of PR 
>> reviewers lower by avoiding to have to read repeatedly a list of 
>> stale PRs, and it also encourages contributors to either make their 
>> work progress towards completion (or just make them realize that they 
>> don't have the bandwidth or motivation to make it further progress, 
>> which is also fine).
>
> I assume this is for PRs awaiting response from the requester,
> not PRs awaiting a response from a reviewer ?

I don't believe the bot can understand that subtlety. At least that's a 
way for the submitter to remember to ping for submitters to give a review

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