Inactive PRs
Sometimes, a PR sits for a long time without progress. This may be because:
- A PR is blocked while waiting for external dependencies
- A PR is waiting for other contributors
- For business reasons, work on the PR is paused
- Many other reasons
In these cases, you may still care about the eventual outcome of the PR, but it becomes clutter sitting around in your regular repository dashboards while no activity is occurring. You may not want to Stop Watching or Ignore a PR, but may want to get it out of your way.
This is the case that Inactive PRs solves.
Inactive PRs Dashboard
After some interval, a PR that hasn’t had updates moves to the Inactive PRs Dashboard. This dashboard is a list of PRs that have become inactive.
You can click into the PR Summary for an inactive PR to view the PR Details.
A PR becoming inactive is one of two ways in which a PR can move out of:
- My PRs
- Assigned PRs
- Reviewing PRs
The only other way a PR can move out of these columns is when it becomes archived, or if you are no longer an assignee or a reviewer.
You can configure the Days until inactive setting from:
Unless you have customized either the global or the repository setting for days until inactive, the default value for this setting is 30 days.
Moving a PR Out of Inactive PRs
There is no way to manually move a PR out of the Inactive PRs dashboard and back into your Repository Dashboard and All Repositories Dashboard.
When a PR receives updates again, it moves out of the Inactive PRs dashboard and back into your Repository Dashboard and All Repositories Dashboard.
If you change the value of the Days until inactive setting to a longer time interval, PR Focus recalculates whether PRs should be inactive and moves any PRs that no longer meet this setting. In this case, PR Focus moves inactive PRs back into your Repository Dashboard and All Repositories Dashboard.