From 2036fe14e5329a5d2431c3119186b9f2a46f22dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Niedzielski <adamsunday@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:40:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add policy for closing stale merge requests

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ae143c58290e4..a285e8ab74f98 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ towards getting your issue resolved.
 Issues and merge requests should be in English and contain appropriate language
 for audiences of all ages.
 
+If a contributor is no longer actively working on a submitted merge request
+we can decide that the merge request will be finished by one of our
+[Merge request coaches][team] or close the merge request. We make this decision
+based on how important the change is for our product vision. If a Merge request
+coach is going to finish the merge request we assign the 
+~"coach will finish" label.
+
 ## Helping others
 
 Please help other GitLab users when you can. The channels people will reach out
-- 
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