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On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 12:00 -0700, Doug Wiegley wrote:
> > Why do you feel the need to keep them?  Do your regularly look at
> > older patches? Do you know anyone that does?
> >
> I don't think that's the point. The point is to try improving
> contributor's life by providing them one last useful comment before
> ignoring their contribution for good.
>
> To me, the abandon does this. It's basically giving a good reason for why
it's being abandoned (4 weeks old, one -2. Or, 4 weeks old, no new
comments), with a nice message on how to re-enable the patch and get fresh
test results.


> Tom gave a good suggestion IMHO and I've found a couple of cases where
> maybe if someone reached out to the contributor and offered some help
> probably their patch would have merged (or they would have learned a
> useful, explicit lesson). Instead auto-abandon has *implicit*
> connotation: a contributor may never know exactly why that patch was
> abandoned.
>
> I suggest to give a second look at Tom's proposal because I think it
> doesn't add any more workload on reviewers but provides for a clean exit
> to a lagging changeset.
>
> /stef
>
>
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