[Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

[Poenitz Andre]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > No, and that's my point : I don't really care how many changes others
> > have. I'll deregister myself from those I'm not interested in.
> >
> all changes i'm subscribed to are somehow interesting to me, obviously.
> that means that i don't want to unsubscribe, as i'd miss any relevant
> activity. therefore they should be abandoned if they are dead, rather
> than having everyone remove themselves (and in the worst case spam all
> other subscribers with a request to be re-invited).
> 
> > Can you elaborate a bit on what practical issue this would solve?
> > (beyond "there are many changes in gerrit").
> >
> apart from the above, it also skews the metrics (in case somebody ever
> decides to use the number of open changes for something).
> 
> also, the matter is not up for discussion: the cleanup of dead changes
> was decided before we launched. i'm just executing.

Than this decision should be revised. 

My dashboard still fits a screen, even with a few old items in it.
If yours doesn't and you don't like that (I wouldn't...) unsubscribe
yourself. Destroying other people's work is not an option.

Andre'