DEAR SIR OR MADAM, I WRITE YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE 654 (SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR) PATCHES NOT MARKED AS REVIEWED THAT HAVE ACCUMULATED ON BUGZILLA SINCE THE RELEASE OF GNOME 2.8...
Maybe I should quit this spam imitation or it won't get past peoples' filters. :-) We have made a number of changes[1] to try to make it easier to review patches for everyone, which will hopefully make it so that we can get more than 80% of patches reviewed[2]. These changes are: - You don't have to load a separate page to edit an attachment state and can change the state of multiple patches at once with the new drop down boxes in the attachment section of show_bug.cgi (see bug 141386) - There's a new "see-comments" state that counts as review. If none of the other states are quite correct (or if you think they sound too harsh...), you can mark a patch with this state when adding an accompanying explanation to a bug (in many cases, there may already be patches out there with sufficient explanation that just need to be marked as reviewed; this state should be handy there) - There's a description of available patch states now (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describeattachstatuses.cgi), linked to from the word "status" where the attachments are shown and also in our "More reports than you can shake a stick at" reports page (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/reports.cgi) Now, as we all know, reviewing patches encourages people to contribute, gains you some co-maintainers more quickly, increases your longevity, propels you to hero status, and reduces the risk of Swedish conspiracies. Thanks for all your hard work, Elijah [1] Besides the changes already made that are listed above, we are also considering making other changes. Currently, this includes patch-nagging and automatically detecting unmaintained-or-undermaintained modules in order to place a big warning on show_bug.cgi (and maybe elsewhere). See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-March/msg00128.html [2] It's kind of sad that 1 out of every 5 patches seems to have gone unreviewed. Yes, I know I don't have much room to speak lately but we should be able to do better. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-diligence-report.cgi for more detailed statistics or to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-status.cgi to just get a list of bugs in your module with unreviewed patches (though note that the latter report doesn't limit to patches submitted between 7 and 180 days ago like the former does). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
