First, we're scaling the PR review, but we only have few active committers, so the merge may not be fast. Second, if someone has a *good* and *large* contribution history, and actively participates in community, we will add him without doubt. Third, 2-year old open PRs doesn't stand anything, some reviewers left the community and PRs get staled, it is quite common, especially in large community.
Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> 于2019年9月1日周日 下午4:46写道： > Apache projects promote contributors to committers based on contributions > made, not on an expectation of future activity. That's the Apache way per > my understanding. Over time, folks become inactive and busy -- life > happens, I get it. May I ask what are you folks doing to scale PR review > and merging? Are you adding new committers? Do you feel that 2-year old > open PRs is where you wish to be and is the right way to grow a community? > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 1:46 AM Sid Anand <r39...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Apache projects promote contributors to committers based on contributions > > made, not on an expectation of future activity. That's the Apache way per > > my understanding. Over time, folks become inactive and busy -- life > > happens, I get it. May I ask what are you folks doing to scale PR review > > and merging? Are you adding new committers? Do you feel that 2-year old > > open PRs is where you wish to be and is the right way to grow a > community? > > > > -s > > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 12:59 AM Saisai Shao <sai.sai.s...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> It's unfair to say there's underlying bias. Livy project is a small > >> project, the contributor diversity may not be as rich as popular project > >> like Spark, it is not fair to say that the contributions only limits to > >> someones, so project is biased. There're many small Apache project which > >> has only few contributors, can we say those projects are biased? Also > for > >> years the committers have joined and left the community, it is hard to > >> track every contribution in time, as we're not a full-time Livy open > >> source > >> contributors. I also have several PRs left unreviewed for years. It's > >> quite > >> common even for large project like Spark, Hadoop, there're so many > >> un-merged PRs left for several years. It's unfair to say the project is > >> biased, unhealthy because of some un-merged PRs. > >> > >> The community is small but free and open, I would deny that the > community > >> is unhealthy especially biased, this is an irresponsible and subjective > >> word. > >> > >> Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> 于2019年9月1日周日 上午4:20写道： > >> > >> > Folks! > >> > We've (several devs, myself included) contacted the livy dev list and > >> the > >> > owners DL several times. Our PRs stagnated over a few years. Livy is a > >> > central component in PayPal's Data Infra (Our data footprint is 80+ > PB). > >> > The project seems pretty unhealthy. After a few years, this dev moved > on > >> > and the state of our PR may be harder to define, with both absentee > >> > mentors/PMC/committers and PR author. > >> > > >> > I see only a narrow band of contributors being merged. I hope there is > >> no > >> > underlying bias, given that this would not be the Apache way. As > >> mentors, I > >> > hope the goal is to watch for such bias and eliminate it to promote > >> > community health, engagement, and integrity. > >> > > >> > -s > >> > > >> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:22 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré < > j...@nanthrax.net> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi Justin, > >> > > > >> > > Like Luciano, I'm also around. I've proposed couple of new features > >> that > >> > > I plan to work on and I try to review/verify the releases. > >> > > > >> > > Regards > >> > > JB > >> > > > >> > > On 21/10/2018 01:50, Justin Mclean wrote: > >> > > > Hi, > >> > > > > >> > > > We have discussed missing mentors on the incubator general list, > >> > > identified those who may be missing and over a couple of months > tried > >> to > >> > > contact your mentor in several ways but have got no reply so they > have > >> > been > >> > > removed from the roster. > >> > > > > >> > > > If this is error, and your mentor is actually active, please > >> contact me > >> > > and I'll add them back to the roster. > >> > > > > >> > > > The IPMC will also do what it can to find extra mentors for those > >> > > podling that need them. > >> > > > > >> > > > Thanks, > >> > > > Justin > >> > > > (V.P. Incubator) > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > >> > > jbono...@apache.org > >> > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > >> > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
