>>! In T113378#1666472, @Reedy wrote:
> We should define some sort of cut off for just abandoning commits (over some date, even more so if CR-1/CR-2 or V-1). They're just clutter. They still exist, and if someone wanted to work on them, they can be easily restored.
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> Probably with a nice summary, "thanks for the commit, you can restore this at a later date if you plan on working on it" etc
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> For example mw core has 29 commits untouched since 2013...
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> You could argue that untouched patches over a year old are candidates for abandoning etc... Core has around 100 commits that are a year old
>>! In T113378#1672213, @EBernhardson wrote:
> This is a standard practice in some open source projects, and I think it would be a good idea for us as well. We can start off incredibly generous, only abandoning patches that havn't been touched in a year. But other projects (such as HHVM) will close open patch sets with three weeks of inactivity. It's not like the patches are lost, abandon just means its not going anywhere. Anyone who wants to can restore the patch set.
>>! In T113378#1672571, @hashar wrote:
> We had past discussion about it http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/450845
See past discussions: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/60150/ , http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65931/ , http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/76459/ , http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/76640/