Should old PRs that look abandoned be closed?

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Nixpkgs has the problem that a lot of contributions arrive but some of them don’t get the attention and pile up.

A lot of older contributions get lost in the pile, some of them get abandoned, so when to close them?

Right now we have contributions from 2017 that got no response [1]. Should these be closed as abandoned?

[1] Pull requests · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Yes but we should triage each of them one by one and determine if the PR is really stale or just missing review and if the author did not respond/work on it for a good amount of time (9 months? 12 months?).

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