My experience is that it takes a good amount of time to review PRs and a
good portion of my time spent contributing to this project is by reviewing
PRs.
I currently have 3 out of 10 PRs that are older then 2 weeks so in my
experience pinging people to about progress has been pretty effective.
Out of those older PRs, 2 of those PRs I have heard back from the authors
and that they would attempt to get back to it soon.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have hit 100 open pull requests today*. It is an arbitrary number, but a
> good excuse to note the upward trend. In part, I think it is simply having
> more changes happening, which is cool. But it is also due to review
> latency. Sorting by "last updated" the first two pages range from 6+ months
> to 16 days ago.
>
> We may, first of all, need a sweep to close stalled / no-go PRs.
>
> After that, having a triage process where someone drops in on PRs and asks
> "any update?" has not been terrifically helpful in my experience (and also
> obscures how stale PRs are) but is perhaps the most active measure we've
> taken in the past.
>
> Gitbox will probably make it easier to see who is requested to review a PR
> and whether it is waiting on the reviewer or the author. That may help.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Kenn
>
> *I'm part of the problem; 16 of them contain the phrase "R: @kennknowles"
> and I also have ~4 outgoing PRs that have stalled
>

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