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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Duncan Thomas wrote:
> I feel the need to abandon changes that seem abandoned. I believe this
> has
> been covered to death now, so I'm going to shelve that conversation for a
> while, and talk about missing tooling in gerrit.
> 
> One of the examples of something that was auto-abandoned wrongly was a
> patch on hold until some future development cycle (L1 in the case of nova
> patches, and cinder batches up certain types of code clean-up commits).
> So,
> one thing that is definitely missing from the tooling is some way of
> flagging such patches such that they *don't* get marked as abandoned, at
> least until some sensible amount of time after they were supposed to get
> picked back up.
> 
> So, the semantics of abandonment *certainly don't fit* patches that are
> just on hold, but we don't have any way of tagging such patches. Is this
> something we can fix?

Does the tool ignore patches with Workflow-1 set ("work in progress")?

Doug

> 
> On 2 March 2015 at 20:44, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com> wrote:
> 
> > Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Why do you say auto-abandon is the wrong tool? I've no problem with the 1
> > > week warning if somebody wants to implement it - I can see the value. A
> > > change-set that has been ignored for X weeks is pretty much the
> > dictionary
> > > definition of abandoned, and restoring it is one mouse click. Maybe put
> > > something more verbose in the auto-abandon message than we have been,
> > > encouraging those who feel it shouldn't have been marked abandoned to
> > > restore it (and respond quicker in future) but other than that we seem to
> > > be using the right tool to my eyes
> >
> > Why do you feel the need to abandon changes submitted by other people?
> >
> > Is it because you have a list of changes to review, and they persist on
> > that list?  If so, let's work on making a better list for you.  We have
> > the tools.  What query/page/list/etc are you looking at where you see
> > changes that you don't want to see?
> >
> > -Jim
> >
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