On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:34 AM Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is no way to force people to review or commit something of course. > And keep in mind we get a lot of, shall we say, unuseful pull requests. > There is occasionally some blowback to closing someone's PR, so the path of > least resistance is often the timeout / 'soft close'. That is, it takes a > lot more time to satisfactorily debate down the majority of PRs that > probably shouldn't get merged, and there just isn't that much bandwidth. > That said of course it's bad if lots of good PRs are getting lost in the > shuffle and I am sure there are some. > > One other aspect is that a committer is taking some degree of > responsibility for merging a change, so the ask is more than just a few > minutes of eyeballing. If it breaks something the merger pretty much owns > resolving it, and, the whole project owns any consequence of the change for > the future. >
+1
