+1
I concur with Steve's proposal / line of argument concerning "reject as
stale" vs "pending / on hold".
On 22-Jan-18 18:05, Steven White wrote:
Mostly, it has to do with the action date. I don't
think it makes WMF
or LangCom look very good to have dozens of projects that appear to
have been pending for over five years, especially when the requester
is someone who showed up for a day, or a couple of weeks, and then has
disappeared. I think it's much better to make sure the requests that
are pending are current ones.
My intention, once I get to requests that are no more than a couple of
years old, is to allow projects to remain "on hold" for 1–2 years, and
only after that closing them. I'm figuring that if no one shows up in
two years, we ought to move on.
Finally, I do intend to make clear on such pages that a future request
would be welcomed if a community (re-)appears in the future.