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On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 16:20 -0600, Alex Schultz wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> So after looking at the backlog of patches to review across all of
> the
> tripleo projects, I noticed we have a bunch of really old stale
> patches. I think it's time we address when we can abandon these stale
> patches.
> 
> Please comment on the proposed policy[0].  I know this has previously
> been brought up [1] but I would like to formalize the policy so we
> can
> reduce the backlog of stale patches.  If you're wondering what would
> be abandoned by this policy as it currently sits, I have a gerrit
> dashboard for you[2] (it excludes diskimage-builder) .

I think it is fine to periodically review patches and abandon them if
need be. Last time this came up I wasn't in fan of auto-abandoning
though. Rather I just made a pass manually and did it in fairly short
order. The reason I like the manual approach is a lot of ideas could
get lost (or silently ignored) if nobody acts on them manually.

Rather then try to automate this would it serve us better to add a link
to your Gerrit query in [2] below to highlight these patches and
quickly go through them.

Dan

> 
> Thanks,
> -Alex
> 
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/449332/
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/0
> 76666.html
> [2] https://goo.gl/XC9Hy7
> 
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