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A comment on Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code. Parent comment

Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by heavenlyblue on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:18AM (#23525063)
How does the system decide which code needs to be deleted?
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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by mkr-plse on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:52PM (#23530541)
The flag management system has information on activity pertaining to various flags. After prolonged inactivity, a flag is considered stale and a diff is generated. This is a heuristic (in the absence of expiry date for a flag) and the final decision on cleanup is made by the flag owner.
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