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

[Leandro Lucarella via dmd-internals]

If a PR is extremely old and have rotten for ages, it's not really
useful, so is just noise in the PR list. I think if you are conservative
about the "X amount of time" it might help. You can also always come to
old closed PRs (you could use a label to mark PR automatically closed).

Also, if you want a PR to stay alive, you just have to tell the bot
that. I guess the bot wouldn't close the PR if it has any activity after
the warning...

Walter Bright via dmd-internals, el  8 de May a las 07:55 me escribiste:
> 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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