# Cleaning up the Trino pull request backlog

DevFeed: [Cleaning up the Trino pull request backlog](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cleaning-up-the-trino-pull-request-backlog-8708.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://trino.io/blog/2023/01/09/cleaning-up-the-trino-backlog.html>)

Author: Cole Bowden

Published: 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trino Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trino-blog.md>)

Topics: [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>)

Tags: [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>)

## AI overview

Trino's developer relations team is manually reviewing its large pull-request backlog, closing apparently abandoned work while helping move viable contributions through review and discussion.

## Source excerpt

At some point in the lifecycle of a successful open source project, it reaches a point where the number of incoming pull requests (PRs) outpace the project's ability to get code merged. It happens for a huge variety of reasons, including developers moving on to other projects before tying up every loose end, reviewers who miss a request for review, and because some stagnant PRs were never going to happen and should have been closed two years ago. The GitHub notification system doesn't do anyone any favors, either. Having too many open PRs is a problem for a project, because they make it harder to tell what is being worked on and what may as well be dead code walking. And when we cross 700 open pull requests in Trino, constantly adding a few more to the pile every week, what do we do? We clean it up! Let's talk about how we're doing it, why we're doing it that way, and how we're planning on preventing this from happening again. The end result should be some process improvements that make contributing to Trino a better, faster, and more painless experience.