I've been meaning to respond to this (Even have the spreadsheet still open)
I want to volunteer to do more list responding. Not sure what I have for time commitment, but in general, I want to be more helpful to user questions etc. We could also start to evaluate some of the response we get and try to better incorporate those into the troubleshooting section of the documentation. I know that I go back to it to refresh my memory on tips I can try to fix my problems. Perhaps if we had list managers helping out, one of the responsibilities could/would be to generalize responses and make contributions back to the documentation or to the devs on how error messages could be improved? If some of the "adhoc" knowledge could be baked into the docs, or even into Drill itself it may start help both adoption and "expert" use of the project. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Jason Altekruse <altekruseja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello devs, > > I think everyone has noticed that there are some parts of project > maintenance that have been lagging in the past few months. > > The good new is that the list has been really active, and I think that we > really have been trying to get back to everyone. Despite a lot of responses > from a lot of committers and contributors, there have been at least a fair > number of threads that received no response, or didn't lead to a resolution > of the issue for the user. > > On github there are currently 80ish open pull requests, while some are > abandoned or replaced by other work, there are a number of instances of > good contributions that are waiting for review. > > I don't have some magical prescription about how to solve this, but one > small change we could make would be revive this document [1] for > designating a primary list manager for each week. This role does not have > to be terribly burdening, or even require a committer to fulfill it. Many > of the questions on the list simply need to be marshalled into a JIRA with > enough info for a reproduction of the bug, or in other cases just require a > pointer to a doc page or existing JIRA on the thread to answer a question. > > As far as the outstanding reviews are concerned, it might make sense for > the list manager to also try to make sure that contributions have an > assigned reviewer when they are posted. > > Thoughts? Does it make sense to try to get something like this going, is > there something that made this effort fade away the last time we tried it > that we should change? > > [1] - > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bEQKk16Kktb1XeZwKD8xCuhaO8FtNfF1Cr2rcTv1a6M >
