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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 13:35 -0800, Clay Gerrard wrote:
> I think Tom's suggested "help us help you" is a great pre-abandon
> warning.  In swift as often as not the last message ended with
> something like "you can catch me on freenode in #openstack-swift if
> you have any questions"  
> 
Good, this thread is starting to converge.
> 
> But I really can't fathom what's the harm in closing abandoned patches
> as abandoned?

Jim Blair gave a lot of good reasons for not abandoning *automatically*
and instead leave the decision to abandon to humans only. 

His message is worth reading again:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/058104.html

/stef