gerrit/Documentation/user-change-cleanup.txt
Edwin Kempin e326a1dada Add background job to abandon inactive changes automatically
Add a change cleanup job that runs periodically in the background.
This cleanup job can automatically abandon open changes that have been
inactive for a defined time.

Abandoning old inactive changes has a few advantages:
- it reduces the load for recomputing the mergeability flag when a
  change is merged
- it keeps dashboards clean
- it signals change authors that changes are considered outdated

Change-Id: Ia798667901fe8d734ca29bcf81c7b9b4a1eb4c50
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <edwin.kempin@sap.com>
2015-06-25 07:26:25 +02:00

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= Gerrit Code Review - Change Cleanup
Gerrit administrators may configure
link:config-gerrit.html#changeCleanup[change cleanups] that are
executed periodically.
[[auto-abandon]]
== Auto-Abandon
This cleanup job automatically abandons open changes that have been
inactive for a defined time.
Abandoning old inactive changes has the following advantages:
* it signals change authors that changes are considered outdated
* it keeps dashboards clean
* it reduces the load on the server (for open changes the mergeability
flag is recomputed whenever a change is merged)
If a change is still wanted it can be restored by clicking on the
`Restore` button.
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