Hi Gerard, This might be a discussion better suited to the maintainer list.
But my two cents on this is that I set aside some time every week to look at pull requests. However, it’s the start of the school year here in the US, and over the last month and a half, I’ve just dropped some of the balls I’m juggling (sole maintainer on my lesson; onboarding a new one). I anticipate, given the proportion of academic or academic-adjacent Carpentry folks, a lot of people are in that boat. We had some discussion of better guidelines for operations on the maintainer call last week (notes here <http://pad.software-carpentry.org/community-call-2017-09-20>). I’m not inherently opposed to some guidelines or a weekly checklist. For an unpaid position, I would find a 2-day turnaround a serious imposition on my time. Specific time demands are something we should tread really carefully on. As for what you can do ... I think you’ll have their attention now ;) April --------- Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University Biology Department 403 Biology Building 2400 N. Oak St Hammond, LA. 70402 512.940.5761 https://paleantology.com/the-wright-lab/ <http://wrightaprilm.github.io/pages/about_me.html> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:59 AM Gerard Capes <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Software Carpenters, > > I've had a few PRs open on SC lessons for around 2 weeks. Two of them have > not received any response at all. One of them had a brief conversation, > ending with me asking for clarification as to what edits would be required > to have the PR merged. > > Now I know the maintainers are volunteers (I am also a lesson maintainer), > and have other priorities, but it's frustrating to go to the bother of > submitting a PR only to get nothing of use back. > > So I'm asking two things: > > 1. Should Software Carpentry have a response time, where a maintainer > should assign the PR within 2 days, or at least comment to indicate their > expected response time? This is the approach I have been taking, but I must > concede that I get far fewer PRs on the lesson I maintain. > 2. What can PR submitters do in my situation? > > Thanks, > Gerard > -- > Gerard Capes > Research Applications, IT Services, University Of Manchester. > 0161 306 2509 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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