On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:57:42 -0600 Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There were 1540 patches merged into the project in 2018 (excluding the > Parquet merge) -- that's more than 4 patches per day. Evidence > suggests that the overall patch count for 2019 will be even higher; if > I had to guess somewhere well over 2000. Out of last year's patches, I > merged 1028, i.e. 2 out of every 3. If we are to be able to take on > 2000 or more patches this year, we'll need more help. If you are > neither a committer nor a PMC member, you can still help with code > review and discussions to help contributors get their work into > merge-ready state.
I generally try to review as many PRs as I feel competent to. What should be the guideline when some PRs for other implementations (such as C#, Java...) are lingering on? > I'll do what I have to in order to keep the patches flowing as fast as > possible into master, but contributors and other maintainers can help > with the Always Be Closing mindset -- the 80/20 rule or 90/10 rule > frequently applies. In many cases it is better to merge a patch and > open up a JIRA for follow up improvements if there is uncertainty > about whether something is "done". I'm quite wary of technical debt (which can quickly plague fast-growing projects) so I tend to be a bit demanding in my reviews :-) Regards Antoine.
