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When a patch series happened to look interesting to the maintainer but is not ready for 'next', it is applied on a topic branch and merged to the 'seen' branch to keep an eye on it. In an ideal world, the participants give reviews and the original author responds to the reviews, and such iterations may produce newer versions of the patch series, and at some point, a concensus is formed that the latest round is good enough for 'next'. Then the topic is merged to 'next' for inclusion in a future release. In a much less ideal world we live in, however, a topic sometimes get stalled. The original author may not respond to hanging review comments, may promise an update will be sent but does not manage to do so, nobody talks about the topic on the list and nobody builds upon it, etc. Following the recent trend to document and give more transparency to the decision making process, let's set a deadline to keep a topic still alive, and actively discard those that are inactive for a long period of time. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>