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

[Walter Bright via dmd-internals]

I agree with Daniel. Closing PRs just because they are old has no benefit, and 
sometimes we do go back, fix one, and pull it, or use it as a guide to making a 
better PR.


On 5/7/2016 9:35 AM, Daniel Murphy via dmd-internals wrote:
> 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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