Shout-out to Michael and other Spark SQL contributors for really trimming
down the number of open/stale Spark SQL PRs
<https://spark-prs.appspot.com/#sql>.

As of right now, the least recently updated open Spark SQL PR goes back
only 11 days.

Nice work!

Nick


On Mon Dec 08 2014 at 2:58:08 PM Nicholas Chammas <
nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently came across this blog post, which reminded me of this thread.
>
> How to Discourage Open Source Contributions
> <http://danluu.com/discourage-oss/>
>
> We are currently at 320+ open PRs, many of which haven't been updated in
> over a month. We have quite a few PRs that haven't been touched in 3-5
> months.
>
> *If you have the time and interest, please hop on over to the Spark PR
> Dashboard <https://spark-prs.appspot.com/>, sort the PRs by
> least-recently-updated, and update them where you can.*
>
> I share the blog author's opinion that letting PRs go stale discourages
> contributions, especially from first-time contributors, and especially more
> so when the PR author is waiting on feedback from a committer or
> contributor.
>
> I've been thinking about simple ways to make it easier for all of us to
> chip in on controlling stale PRs in an incremental way. For starters, would
> it help if an automated email went out to the dev list once a week that a)
> reported the number of stale PRs, and b) directly linked to the 5 least
> recently updated PRs?
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat Aug 30 2014 at 3:41:39 AM Nicholas Chammas <
> nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> it's actually precedurally difficult for us to close pull requests
>>
>>
>> Just an FYI: Seems like the GitHub-sanctioned work-around to having
>> issues-only permissions is to have a second, issues-only repository
>> <https://help.github.com/articles/issues-only-access-permissions>. Not a
>> very attractive work-around...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>

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