there's a long-ass thread on my work Slack debating whether or not to close stale PRs, with a surprising amount of people arguing against it
to me it feels clearly counterproductive to have PRs that literally haven't been touched in over a year, but one guy was asking why anyone should have the oversight to close others' PRs and I'm just like... uh, maybe if people actually did close their PRs, we wouldn't be having this conversation?
@joe_no_body Closing stale PRs should be fine. The people who care can still track a local branch.
@mtomczak right. and part of my point was that closing a PR is a reversible operation. we don't clean up stale branches, so nothing would stop you from coming back to that old PR later on and reopening it when it's ready