Thank you Joseph, If you have time you can help us review the pending pulls and see if they are still useful and/or suggest changes before merge. Every eye on patches is very valuable and it helps commiters of the project in their work.
Enrico Il mer 15 mag 2019, 19:08 Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> ha scritto: > Hi Joseph, > > great to hear you want to contribute, we appreciate that a lot! > But you mind have noticed there are a huge amount of open issues and pull > request and we simple can not catch up due to the limited amount of time > and volunteers. > > Regarding the open PRs, I expect that most were created in a period where > Maven itself was still on subversion, but the Apache Software Foundation > provided read-only copies at Github. > The integration between both systems was bad, we didn't get notifications > and trying to patch it back to subversion was a nightmare. > Things are better nowadays, but we still suffer from that period. > > My main activity is currently reading and writing daily e-mails and trying > to get and keep everything stable.So development is not even in the top 3 > activities. > Going through older PRs is something that should be done, but I'm afraid > it is not getting the highest priority. > > Don't let this be a message to stop contributing, just be aware that it > requires some patience. > > thanks, > Robert > > > On 14-5-2019 06:21:17, Joseph Walton <jwal...@atlassian.com> wrote: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional > commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > As an interested contributor, I've opened a couple of pull requests, and > it's not always clear what the next step is for a non-project-member to get > things merged. > > To see how other PRs (https://github.com/apache/maven/pulls [ > https://github.com/apache/maven/pulls] -- currently, '32 open') are being > handled, I thought it might make sense to chart them; chart attached. > > Notable: > * a significant number were opened more than a year ago (as far back as > 2014), haven't been merged and now have conflicts. Could they be closed? > > * some more recent ones are mergeable, and approved. Can these be merged? > * for the other PRs in between -- do they need work, or would closing them > send a clearer message? > > Thanks. >
