[Qgis-psc] Enable Probot-Stale on qgis/QGIS

[Paolo Cavallini]

The replies are quite convincing to me.
+1
Thanks a lot.

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

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