How long should we wait for submitter action on a PR?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 14, 2018, at 09:37, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> We have one open PR where the submitter hasn't replied to some
> requests for changes since the initial request several weeks ago. (I
> tried emailing the requester directly some time ago and got no
> response there either.)
> 
> Clearly there should be a timeout after which the pull request gets
> closed for lack of submitter action, but what should it be? (We can
> always reopen the request if the submitter wakes up of course, it
> just no longer shows as a pending action for project members to worry
> about processing.)
> 
> (I imagine in some cases someone might choose to make the fixes on
> behalf of the submitter and commit them, but lets ignore that
> possibility for now.)

Why should we ignore that possibility? That would have been my recommendation. That's how we handle tickets, isn't it?