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> On 2014-09-18 15:21:20 -0400 (-0400), Jay Dobies wrote:
>> How many of the reviews that we WIP-1 will actually be revisited?
>>
>> I'm sure there will be cases where a current developer forgetting
>> they had started on something, seeing the e-mail about the WIP-1,
>> and then abandoning the change.
>>
>> But what about developers who have moved off the project entirely?
>> Is this only masking the problem of stale reviews from our review
>> stats and leaving the review queue to bloat?
> [...]
>
> What is "review queue bloat" in this scenario? How is a change
> indefinitely left in Gerrit with "workflow -1" set any different
> from a change indefinitely left in Gerrit with "abandoned" set? It's
> not like we go through and purge changes from Gerrit based on these,
> and they take up just as much space and other resources in either
> state.

Ah, ok. I assumed the abandoned ones were reaped over time. Perhaps it's 
just a matter of me writing different searches when I want to ignore the 
workflow -1s.