[Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:58:32AM +0100, Jedrzej Nowacki wrote:
> Please don't do it. My dashboard contains patches, that I'm interested in. It 
> is a kind of knowledge storage, with already signed CLA. I understand that a 
> big dashboard is not nice to maintain, but forcing everyone to clean it up is 
> not the way to go. 
> 
> Answer is: use filters.
> 
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#q,reviewer:+oswald+-age:+2d+status:open,n,z
> 
> for more you can look here:
> https://review.typo3.org/Documentation/user-search.html
> 
thankyouverymuch, i know how to use filters.
unfortunately, this entirely misses the point.
the whole exercise is meant to prod some contributions into (a promise
of) activity, and to weed out hopeless ones. most of the stuff is
totally inapplicable meanwhile. there is just no point in keeping it
open.
for the "repository of potentially interesting stuff [which, let's face
it, i'll never get around to using]" you can use the "star" feature -
this makes it conveniently reachable, but keeps it out of your working
set (i.e., the dashboard), and is independent of the state the changes
are in.