Just stating what we discussed IRL, this is a great effort and initiative, David!
Att, Pedro Mázala Be awesome On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 08:52, Robert Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
