If we do do this, I think we should make it very clear to users that they
can unabandon a change if they plan to fix it.

Personally id like to get rid of the changesets that have been open over a
year by someone who hasnt done anything mediawiki related for months and
probably isnt coming back.

--bawolff

On Apr 9, 2014 12:39 PM, "Liangent" <liang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have some changesets where I uploaded a reworked patchset several weeks
> or even months after an original -1 was given...
>
> Anyway a changeset can be easily "renewed" by rebasing it, but the side
> effect is that all existing -1's get flushed. If people start to use this
> method to extend the period, it's not something good...
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes yes yes please!
> >
> > I've been manually doing this in mobile with a short friendly note
saying
> > if the owner wants to resubmit it they can feel free to at a later
date. My
> > gerrit is just a spam queue right now.
> >
> > Just to clarify - if someone submits a patch then says 1 month later via
> > comment I still want to work on it do we abandon it for the time being
or
> > keep it open?
> > On 9 Apr 2014 08:08, "Quim Gil" <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > In relation to our discussion about code review metrics at
> > > http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html
> > >
> > > I just learned that OpenStack has a policy to abandon automatically
> > reviews
> > > sitting in -1 during more than one week:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63533#c1
> > >
> > > Maybe one week is too tight for the reality of our project, but what
> > about
> > > 2-4 weeks?
> > >
> > > Brad and others said last week that they were not interested in code
> > review
> > > queue metrics mixing pending -1 reviews. Maybe the solution is not to
> > tweak
> > > the metrics, but to effectively abandon those changesets
automatically?
> > >
> > >
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