From 2036fe14e5329a5d2431c3119186b9f2a46f22dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Niedzielski Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:40:07 +0000 Subject: Add policy for closing stale merge requests --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index ae143c58290..a285e8ab74f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ towards getting your issue resolved. Issues and merge requests should be in English and contain appropriate language for audiences of all ages. +If a contributor is no longer actively working on a submitted merge request +we can decide that the merge request will be finished by one of our +[Merge request coaches][team] or close the merge request. We make this decision +based on how important the change is for our product vision. If a Merge request +coach is going to finish the merge request we assign the +~"coach will finish" label. + ## Helping others Please help other GitLab users when you can. The channels people will reach out -- cgit v1.2.1