Hi all, I’d like to suggest a revision to our PR review process. Right now, it seems like the process is to tag people in comments and hope they respond. But in my experience, this can take painfully long—especially for infrequent contributors who aren’t part of any community or organization that actively contributes to Kafka.
I totally understand that reviewing PRs is a volunteer effort and no one gets paid for it, so I hope this doesn’t come across as too harsh. My suggestion is to update the repo settings to automatically assign reviewers from the list of committers and PMC members, like other open-source projects do. We could also set up weekly reminders for PRs that haven’t been reviewed and tag them with a special label so that volunteers with free cycles can easily find them. Plus, we might introduce a soft policy asking assigned reviewers to respond within a week if no one else has. Thanks, NB
