Yes, that is a good edit Otto. If I formally submit this as a change to dev guidelines, I will use your edit.
One small thing, instead of "submitter", I'll stick with "contributor" because I use that everywhere else. A pull request is 'inactive' if no comments or updates have been made by the contributor in the previous 6 weeks. On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would be more explicit that the inactivity was the inactivity of the > submitter. > It should be clear that this is not for PRs that have not been reviewed, > or PRs where the submitter has asked a question > or answered a question and the reviewers have abandoned the effort. Not > that that ever happens. > > “A pull request where a review has been initiated will be considered > inactive if it is waiting on > reply or action on the part of the submitter and has had no activity by > that submitter in the previous six weeks” > > etc etc > > > > A pull request is 'inactive' if no comments or updates have been made by > the submitter > in the previous 6 weeks > > > On April 13, 2018 at 14:44:40, Nick Allen (n...@nickallen.org) wrote: > > There are a fair number of inactive PRs in our queue that have little to > no > chance of being merged. Tidying up our queue and keeping open only active > PRs should help the community better identify which PRs need reviewed and > actioned. > > If the original contributor does not close the PR, the only course of > action that we can take is to open an Apache Infra request to close the > PR. We have only ever done this after multiple failed attempts to contact > the original contributor. > > I suggest that we add to the Metron development guidelines [1] exactly how > inactive PRs should be handled. > > (Q1) Should we add to the development guidelines a process for handling > inactive PRs? > > > > Assuming there is support for this, I would suggest the following as a > first draft. These would serve as an addendum to section 2.6 > > 2.6.1 Inactive Pull Requests > > > Contributions can often take a significant amount of time to complete the > code review process. This process requires active participation from the > contributor. If the contributor is unable to actively participate, the PR > is unlikely to successfully complete this process. Pull Requests that have > failed to receive active participation for an extended period of time risk > being treated as abandoned. > > Any committer can submit a request for Apache Infra to close a pull > request that has been abandoned according to the following guidelines. > > > - A pull request is 'inactive' if no comments or updates have been made > in the previous 6 weeks. > > > - For any 'inactive' pull request, a committer can request from the > contributor justification for keeping the pull request open. > > > - In that request, the committer should refer the contributor to these > development guidelines for inactive pull requests. > > > - If the contributor does not respond to the request within 2 additional > weeks, the committer should cast a -1 vote on the PR using these > development guidelines as justification. > > > - Any committer can then submit a request to Apache Infra to close the > PR based on this -1 vote. > > > (Q2) Assuming support for the idea, are these good guidelines? I offer > this only to help drive the discussion. I am open to alternatives. > > > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/METRON/Development+Guidelines > >
