[Dlang-internal] The Phantom Zone

[Sebastian Wilzbach]

On 2018-01-16 19:32, qznc via Dlang-internal wrote:
> On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 01:10:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> PRs banished to the Phantom Zone would have to have an explanatory 
>> comment saying why.
> 
> I would suggest an alternative approach: Automate it.
> 
> 1. When there is no activity on a PR for one month, the bot pings the
> author and asks for the status.
> 2. When there is no activity on a PR for four months, the bot pings
> three random other people and asks them to adopt the PR. Maybe it can
> be more clever then "random" and look at what files are touched or
> something.

The bot currently marks a PR has stalled if there hasn't been any 
activity within three months

> 3. When there is no activity on a PR for half a year, the bot leaves a
> short comment "no activity for half a year." and closes the PR.

This would be trivial to implement, but I haven't done this so far, 
because there hasn't been a consensus on this.

> If someone wants to keep a PR alive it only takes single comment every
> six months.
> 
> I doubt that there is any PR which got zero activity for six months,
> yet was successfully merged later.

Hehe, it does happen sometimes, e.g.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4988

Also Rainers recently rebased #2480:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/2480

But obviously not too often.