Thank you for running this initiative! Let's try to collaborate async on the community health and do calls ad-hoc as needed.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM David Radley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > We are coming up for a year of the Community Health Initiative [1]. With > goals of > > - High level, remove the need for the workgroup and run as BAU > - Improve new contributor experience by getting prompt responses to > issues and PRs, such that PRs are merged in a timely manner. > - Pragmatically address unmerged PR backlog considering > - Recent ones (to stay on top of incoming PRs and helping new > contributors) > - High /critical blocking ones > - One that just should be merged. > - Pragmatically address issue backlog, especially criticals and > blockers > - Assumption – all communications go through the dev list. > > > The main participants were @Tom Cooper <[email protected]>, myself and > @Robert > Metzger <[email protected]>. Tom is no longer working with Flink. > > The achievements of the workgroup have been: > > - Tom and I have been reviewing Flink PRs, starting from the latest. > - Regular PR triaging in weekly meetings. > - Massively reducing the PR backlog by introducing the stale Github > action. When we started last year, we had 1181 open PRs on the Flink repo, > 1030 of them had not been reviewed. We now have 208 open PRs, 200 have not > been reviewed and 8 are stale. We seemed to have reached a steady state > around 200; which is much more manageable. > - To encourage and recognise more reviewing by non-committers we added > the 2 community review labels. > - We added Github action to label PRs with the targeted branch, so it > is easy to see back ports in the list of PRs. > - We produced list of the LGTM PRs and straightforward merges that > Robert and other committers have merged. > - We discussed on going issues, potential ideas around improving the > community health as detailed in the minutes. > > I have very much enjoyed leading this workgroup and am happy to continue > if there is support for it, as I am a big believer in the Apache way and > community over code. If anyone would like to actively join this > workgroup, please let me know, we have been meeting on Teams every week. If > I do not hear anything within the next week, then I will stop the weekly > meetings and resurrect when the community has the appetite for it. > > Either way I intend to continue reviewing PRs and be involved/support/own > community health improvements; any feedback is welcome. > > Kind regards and thanks for your support over the past year, David. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Community+Health+Initiative+%28CHI%29+workgroup > > > > > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 > Registered office: Building C, IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road, > Winchester, Hampshire SO21 2JN >
