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

[Leandro Lucarella via dmd-internals]

BTW, having old broken PRs consumes resources in the auto-tester, right?
Once a PR have rotten it will be never magically fixed, so it doesn't
make sense to keep testing it with the auto-tester.

Leandro Lucarella via dmd-internals, el  9 de May a las 00:15 me escribiste:
> 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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