Your suggestion is good Sachin and I agree. What I think we need is a JIRA triage person who
watches the incoming JIRAs and is a PITA until someone deals with the patch. Kind of like we do the
TCK.
I think 3-4 days is max as after that discouragement probably starts to set in.
Sachin Patel wrote:
As I've been working to get some of these patches applied to 1.1.1, I've
noticed most of the patches are still months old and 90% of the time
when a patch is applied thats the end of the defect thread and no
comments on the patches are provided. This I'm sure is very frustrating
and surely it has to be discouraging community participation. We need
to have an immediate change our policy on when patches get posted by the
community (non-committers specifically) that they get assigned to an
individiual for review ASAP and under no circumstances should a jira
that contains a patch be unassigned. All patches must be considered for
inclusion in the targeted fix version and we cannot continue to let
patches dangle over multiple releases. I'm not sure if there would be a
way to enforce this, except take it upon ourselves to take the time to
review and comment on contributions from the community.
So what would be a reasonable time frame that a patch should should be
reviewed, applied or commented on by? 3-4 days, a week?
-sachin
