<html><head></head><body>The replies are quite convincing to me.<br>
+1<br>
Thanks a lot.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 26 giugno 2018 23:24:15 CEST, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson@gmail.com> ha scritto:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 05:08, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Il 26/06/2018 21:05, Tim Sutton ha scritto:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Matthias<br><br> From memory I think I proposed something like this before and there was<br> some resistance so we never did it. If the resistance is gone yay :-)<br></blockquote><br> Hi all,<br> I'm always a bit concerned about automatic discarding the work of<br> others. Would this be after a fixed time, or only if the author fails to<br> reply after a while?<br> All the best.<br></blockquote><br>I guess one of the big lessons from the recent push on taming the PR<br>queue is that orphaned PRs are of little value to the project, because<br>even the most trivial of fixes can take substantial time for someone<br>else to step in and get to a merge ready state. We really need PRs to<br>be merged (or deemed as invalid by the original submitter) ASAP, while<br>the original submitter is still motivated to see their work merged.<br>Basically the best way to do this is to keep the pressure on them to<br>answer in a timely fashion and address changes rapidly.<br><br>FWIW, I'd much rather some anonymous bot closes work based on some<br>pre-decided logic (like Matthias is proposing), then require one of<br>our usual maintainers to be "the bad guy" who goes through and blocks<br>other's work.<br><br>And as Tim & Matthias have already commented, the work isn't lost,<br>it's just pushed back to the original submitter's responsibility to<br>fix up and reopen/resubmit.<br><br>Nyall<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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