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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 17:33, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> it has been enabled for a test drive, let's see how it does :-)
>

And the countdown is now on. For fairness, I've just triggered the 14
day timer for ALL open PRs which haven't had comments in the last
couple of days. No-one is being targeted here, it's just a widespread
application of the new policy.

Nyall

> 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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