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Date:      Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:17:10 +0100
From:      "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "=?utf-8?q?Bart=C5=82omiej?= Rutkowski" <robak@freebsd.org>, git@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pull requests
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On 1 Mar 2017, at 17:14, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 1 Mar 2017, at 15:48, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Pull requests older than 18 months will be converted to bugzilla 
>>> items to
>>> not lose them.
>>
>>
>> I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at here. Presumably 
>> it doesn’t
>> mean that pull requests without activity will sit around for 18 
>> months
>> before
>> they’re archived in bugzilla.  Is this about pull requests that 
>> have been
>> closed? Is there any reason to migrate those?
>
> The idea is that after a while pull requests are too stale. Now that I
> think about it, maybe 18 months is far too long and I should say
> something smaller, or have some other criteria more directly related
> to it being actually stale.
>
Right, so that’s covered better (and with a more reasonable timeframe) 
by
“Issues unresolved on github after about a month will result in the 
pull
request being transitioned to bugzilla or closed at the discretion of 
the
project.”

> But there's no value to keeping pull requests open just in case. That
> degrades the value of having this as a service for simple, ready to go
> things. If it gets too old, it no longer fits that definition.
>
Agreed.

Regards,
Kristof



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