On 5/11/05, Samuel Abels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have there been any attempts to identify which non-maintainers > contributed more than ~3(,4,5,whatever) patches, so that a maintainer > who urgently needs help can ask them whether they may be interested to > become a co-maintainer? They don't need to contribute much new code, > simply accepting patches seems to be great help already.
Hehe, take a look at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/ChangeLog?view=markup and check for occurrences of my name. I still can't accept patches (well, if it's "obvious and Rob and I agree" then Havoc says its okay...). Having contributed just a handful of patches isn't enough to become a co-maintainer, typically. And making someone co-maintainer doesn't take a lot of effort--anyone that might become a co-maintainer is well known by the maintainers already, and when the maintainer wants to bring someone else on board they just have to announce it. > I noticed that in the last two or three months the number of unreviewed > patches has been growing rapidly; when I checked a few months ago the > count was at ~500, now we are close to breaking the 900 barrier. Evolution and a bunch of other related products were imported, and I believe that may account for much if not most of that increase. > Meaning, we will probably soon have even less time to review new > patches, making the problem even worse. Something needs to be done. I'm working on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-nag.cgi, with the idea of periodicially emailing people with a condensed form of whats in that page and a link to that page... Elijah _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
