Details
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Task
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Auto Closed
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Description
Sometimes PR's get abandoned if people aren't responsive to feedback or it just falls to a lower priority. We should automatically close stale PR's in order to keep the queue from growing infinitely.
I think we just want to do this with a friendly message that says "This seems inactive, please re-open this if you are interested in contributing the patch.". We should also explicitly ping any reviewers (via @mentioning) them and ask them to provide feedback one way or the other, for instance, if the feature is being rejected.
This will help us avoid letting features slip through the cracks by forcing some action when there is no activity after 30 days. Also, it's ASF policy that we should really be tracking our feature backlog and prioritization in JIRA and only be using Github for active reviews.
I don't think we should close it if there was no feedback from any reviewer - in that case we should leave it open (we should be providing at least some feedback on all incoming patches).