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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst index c7ab1b8ab..8a1b7996a 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst @@ -105,6 +105,15 @@ Consider marking a merge request as WIP again if you are taking a while to address a review point. This signals that the next action is on you, and it won't appear in a reviewer's search for non-WIP merge requests to review. +As a general rule of thumb, after a month of no activity from the submitter of +a non-WIP MR, we'll put it back into WIP with a polite note. Then after another +month with no activity we'll close the MR off entirely with another note. +In this way we are trying to ensure all of the MRs in our backlog are relevant +and up to date. We have some `boilerplate text +<https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/blob/master/.gitlab/merge_request_templates/stale_MR_message.md>`_, +to help us when writing these notes. + + Organized commits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |