Policy for stalled reviews?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:48:45 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:

> >   Continue talking to the other people,
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> Yes, this is the correct action. But it's hard  to talk to people if 
> they don't reply  at all or not in a meaningful way. I'm not talking 
> about reviews making progress, possibly with the help of others. I'm 
> talking about reviews stalled because both submitter and reviewer seems 
> to have given up for a long time, ignoring input from others.

A specific example might be helpful at this point. What you've described
here is not what you've described in the opening post. If you've followed
the policy for stalled reviews, with both the submitter and the reviewer
not responding, I wonder who closes your own review request as duplicate?
That sounds wrong to me.

If nobody else is left and you are the only one "talking to yourself"
in a review ticket, you are stuck, because you cannot approve your own
package.

What you can still do is:

* Check your own package painstakingly, so it meets the guidelines.
  Do it as if you were the reviewer - follow the ReviewGuidelines page.

* Advertise the package (and the review request), and offer swapping
  reviews with somebody, if necessary.