Re: Fixing Two Old PRs

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Dalibor Gudzic <dalibor.gudzic%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> Is there a time limit for old PRs upon which they sorta expire or
>> something? I also got one that I submitted, but got no response for
>> about a year or less. I understand devs don't have time to solve every
>> PR, I'm just interested to know if PRs ever expire, or they get looked
>> on after a while.
>
> They stay until closed.  But the number of people who troll through old
> PRs and fix them is very small, perhaps 0.
>
>
> If there's a PR with a fix and there is recent confirmation that it
> applies to netbsd-5 and -current, then bringing it to people's attention
> is useful
>


This seemed to get done a lot during hackathons, which hasn't occurred
in a while..