Hi Justin, I agree with you that this behavior is not encouraging for new contributors, and we have to improve on :( Sadly it is really dependent on the way how we review the incoming pull requests, and if a pull request is old then it is even more unlikely that it will get a review. IMHO adding this timeout will not have any effect on this area.
Thanks, Peter > On Jun 17, 2020, at 00:33, Justin Mclean <jmcl...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Sadly I think there is not much we can do for contributions >1 year - those >> patches will be likely outdated already - and the contributor have probably >> abandoned it. > > Another point of view would be that the project has failed to either review, > merge or encourage the committer to continue to work on this project. Imagine > you make your first coupe of small contribution to a project and then some > point later you are told they are stale and won't be acted upon. Would you > want to make further contributions to that project? Is doing this welcoming > to new committers? > > Thanks, > Justin
