10 Tips for Better Pull Requests

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 19:23:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/16/2015 9:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I'm thinking of something like: if there's $(legitimate) 
>> request for changes but
>> the author is dormant for more than $(X) days, then close.
>
> That's also a hamfisted policy. I've seen PR's that were good, 
> but needed a bit of work, but the author disappeared. 
> Sometimes, I've taken those over and finished them.
>
> Arbitrarily closing them means they get lost forever.

Add an "abandoned" label, and assign it when closing? Then they 
won't get lost, but also won't clutter the list.