+1 for this approach . It will be good for new one's to start contribute as well .
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Srikanth Sundarrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > I know few other projects at ASF follow the practice of cancelling patches > when more work is required on it to keep the "Patch Available" queue small > and with something that requires immediate attention. Am +1 on this. > > +1 for tagging jira's with "newbie" as well. One needs to update the cwiki > article in How To contribute accordingly as well. > > Regards > Srikanth Sundarrajan > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:24:44 +0530 > > Subject: [DISCUSS] - Cancel Patches & newbie JIRAs > > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Currently we have around 30 issues in Patch Available state. To keep this > > queue short and to distinguish the issues which haven't been reviewed > from > > the issues which have been reviewed but need further work, I propose that > > we should change the state to Open (by cancelling the patch). This way we > > can review patches which need to be looked at more efficiently and > > frequently. > > > > My second suggestion is to start creating some "nice to have" JIRAs which > > are suitable for new comers and label them as *newbie. *This will help > new > > comers who want to contribute to the project. Experienced contributors > > should avoid assigning these JIRAs to themselves unless absolutely > > necessary. Help from other committers towards creating more newbie JIRAs > is > > very welcome. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Cheers > > Ajay Yadava > > -- Regards Pavan Kumar Kolamuri
