On 06/12/2017 05:41 PM, Dominik Ruf wrote:
Hello everyone,
this mail is overdue, but I always hoped it would get better. :-/
I know this is a community project and we all have other
responsibilities. So I understand that a request does not get answered
instantly.
I understand and see your frustration.
Not that it really answer your questions, but for what it's worth, some
comments to your examples:
But for example my pull requests about 'repository settings' is now
literally waiting for YEARS.
Yes. Also, the latest changesets in the PR still say WIP, suggesting
that it not really is considered ready yet. The previous iteration got
review feedback 2 weeks ago. I haven't had time to follow up on the
latest one, having spent time on ...
Or lately my 'Port Kallithea theme to Bootstrap' pull request. I asked
multiple times for some feedback, but since 2 MONTH I got nothing. I
understand that reviewing takes time, but at least some kind of
comment is not too much to ask.
Bootstrap has been very hard to land. Mainly because my initial requests
for splitting things up with clean history so they were reviewable were
refused or ignored. I have thus spent a lot of time trying to
extract/redo and land parts that I could review and so I knew what was
changed and why. The latest iteration of the Bootstrap PR is much better
and we are making progress - thanks!
And some pull request like 'catch MemoryErrors when calling git diff'
are really trivial.
Unfortunately, I also have the feeling that the approach in that PR is
wrong. If we push the system so much that we get MemoryErrors, the
system might start swapping and other things might fail too. Instead, we
should make sure we don't use crazy amounts of memory but fail
gracefully. But I haven't had time to investigate and propose a better
solution.
This can not continue in this way. This project is now almost 3 years
old and we have very little to show for ourselves. In fact there were
questions if this project is actually alive (can't find the link right
now). And I can't blame anybody to think so. Kallithea has improved
very little. Version 0.3 is 20 month ago.
So my questions to you guys is this:
What are your future plans for this project?
My plan is to keep improving it, as contributions, time and priorities
allow it.
Are there any chances that this project will start moving more quickly?
Yes, if more people help by adding more resources and by helping us
utilize resources better.
Contributors can help reviewing, testing and improving contributions
from others to the point where they are willing to put it in production
right away and support it long term.
Code contributors can also help by following the contributor guidelines
and structure the code changes in such a way that they are easy to
review and maintain.
/Mads
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