[Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:43:33PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:43:34PM +0000, Rutledge Shawn wrote:
> > I do actually abandon stuff when it's quite clear that it's
> > dead, but due to the review and CI processes, there's quite a
> > large percentage of what I write that has hit some sort of
> > obstacle and yet is still a good idea to somehow get done.
>  
> before somebody gets stupid ideas: the cut-off for dead changes
> will be set at two months (or more - tbd) without any activity
> (which is not pinging). i don't see how any regular processes
> could lead to changes being stuck longer than that, and why
> "keep-alive" comments wouldn't be an acceptable effort to handle
> the exceptional cases.

Most of my open issues are "work in progress" for things that are
not completely mission-critical, essentially waiting for the
equivalent of a "Creative Christmas Vacation". And yes, this may
mean "yet another year".

> i don't yet know how to turn this into routine. but i think we
> should repeat this each time in the middle between two minor
> releases, which would make for a roughly half-yearly cycle.

The problem seems to be that for a few people the dashboard gets
oversized. That's not necessarily a problem of The System which
mostly contains requests not related to those few people.

I understand that having an oversized dashboard makes it unusable,
but this problem is not solved by imposing yet another process on
unrelated changes. Just unsubscribe from the not-so-interesting
reviews. The world will not end. Even if you don't watch it.

Andre'