Policy for stalled reviews?

[Alec Leamas]

On 12/27/2012 10:48 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Perhaps you're right. Let's apply the unresponsive reviewer policy even 
though I'm, not the submitter.  I have missed that this is actually 
perfectly OK. And you are also right in that I could submit my own 
version forcing the stalled review to close it as duplicate or not.  
It's only if all these actions fail there actually is a problem.

Case closed for now, thanks for help!

--alec