[dmd-internals] Auto-warn authors followed by auto-close of very stale PRs

[Daniel Murphy via dmd-internals]

What would that gain us?  I eventually come back to my open PRs...

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via dmd-internals
<dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:
> It seems that after open pulls page 4 or so on the DMD side of things
> a pretty large number of PRs are completely broken and haven't been
> touched in months, or worse in years. E.g.
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4658
>
> There is really no benefit to having PRs just sit idly like that.
>
> I think we could automate the clean-up of stale pulls and we could
> even do it in stages:
>
> After X amount of time we could make `dlang-bot` attempt to notify the
> author of his stale PR, then let some more time pass again, and if the
> PR is still in bad shape `dlang-bot` would close the PR, send a
> notification to the PR author about the pull being closed, but also CC
> to dmd-internals / phobos-internals / etc in case the author went AWOL
> so we have a chance of picking up the work from there.
>
> Thoughts?
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