DMB: Proposal for a different review process

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:28:54PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 01:12 PM, Dan Chen wrote:
> > The only thing I add is that we should be cognizant of building a
> > timeout into the process using Launchpad so that applications don't
> > "spin indefinitely," e.g., "the stale five-digit Launchpad bug
> > report."
> 
> Launchpad can auto-expire bug reports that remain inactive for a period
> of X days. This could be used to handle stale applications where the
> applicant isn't responsive. Would this fit what you are looking for?

Launchpad's auto-expire is not very configurable; i.e. I think it is set
to expire after 60 days, which may be longer than you'd want to wait.
Also, it does not leave a message when the expiration happens.

Like Brad mentions, what you probably really want is a bot that first
sends a 'nag' after some period of time, and then if there's still no
response then set it to Expired (with an automatic comment explaining
what the individual should do to reactivate the request.)

Bryce