[tor-bugs] #29549 [Core Tor/Tor]: How can we close obsolete GitHub pull requests?

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#29549: How can we close obsolete GitHub pull requests?
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     Reporter:  teor          |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  task          |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:  tor-github
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       Points:  1             |   Reviewer:
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 Most of our GitHub pull requests are automatically closed when the commits
 in the pull request are merged.

 But if we don't merge the exact commits from a pull request, it sticks
 around.

 Here are some things we could do:
 * Ignore old pull requests
 * Close all pull requests older than N months
 * Work out some clever way to identify obsolete pull requests, and
 automatically close them

 We talked about this issue in Brussels:
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019BrusselsNetworkTeam/Notes/StableMaintainer#CurrentProcess

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