I added and tagged "needs-committer" and "stale"

needs-committer has 98 PRs
stale has 57 PRs

Patrick

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 10:34 AM Patrick McFadin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Those are just the ones my triage routine came up with. Let me look at
> existing labels and see if existing make sense. Either way I’ll make sure
> everything is properly marked.
>
> Patrick
>
> > On Apr 10, 2026, at 11:53 PM, Štefan Miklošovič <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Wonderful. While you are at it, could you apply labels to them?
> > NEEDS-COMMITTER, MONITOR, PING-AUTHOR, CLOSE-NO_TICKET.
> >
> > We do not need to apply labels on something which is actively worked
> > on. I would like to just have a filter on which these are. Your
> > categorisation is valuable insight but I just do not know which they
> > are right now to act on it.
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM Patrick McFadin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I spent most of the day cleaning up the massive backlog of PRs. Let me
> give you a summary.
> >>
> >> Docs: There is only one DOC PR left! Everything else was merged and is
> now in trunk. I'll keep watching those.
> >>
> >> Non-docs: I found a lot of PRs still open when the code was already
> merged and the JIRA was resolved. For those, I closed the PR with a
> comment. Several PRs were over 2 years old with no JIRA. I closed those
> with a comment.
> >>
> >> I had Claude do a triage to group the rest of the PRs. This is what we
> have left.
> >>
> >> ACTIVE — 278 PRs
> >>  Updated recently or actively being worked. No action needed. This is
> the biggest bucket.
> >>
> >> NEEDS-COMMITTER — ~97 PRs
> >>  This is the most significant finding. Patches with open, viable JIRAs
> (status: Patch Available,
> >>  Review In Progress, Needs Committer) that are just sitting there
> waiting for a committer to pick them
> >>  up. Spread across all age ranges — some are fresh (0–30 days), others
> have been waiting 2+ years.
> >>
> >> MONITOR — ~22 PRs
> >>  Updated within the last year, JIRA open, but not actively moving.
> >>
> >> PING-AUTHOR — ~21 PRs
> >>  JIRA open, PR stale 1–2 years. Need a rebase request comment.
> >>
> >> CLOSE-NO-TICKET — ~11 PRs
> >>  No JIRA, 1+ year stale.
> >>
> >> CLOSE-STALE — ~1 PR
> >>  #55 — 3,833 days old, last updated 1,486 days ago. The oldest open PR
> in the repo. A real classic
> >>
> >> Patrick
>

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