On Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:48:16 AM UTC+11, Andy Parker wrote: This is an area that we've been really week in: keeping on top of > patches from people outside of Puppet Labs. We've been trying to have > a (rotating) person dedicated to responding to those, but I'll admit > that I've often had to pull them off in order to work on other things. > Without that person looking at pull requests they end up falling by > the wayside. This is really not a good situation, because a huge about > of what makes puppet work in all of these environments is the > contributions from others. > > So yeah...this is a big problem right now. I'm open to suggestions > about how we could work differently to fix it. Maybe giving out commit > access to more people outside of Puppet Labs? > If there was an experienced developer outside of Puppet Labs who was willing to be a sort of volunteer team leader with commit rights dedicated to liaising with the community contributors and Puppet Labs - maybe that could be a solution. Or failing that if we at least had a way of getting in touch with the right person in Puppet Labs to get our issues looked at that might help. It doesn't seem ideal to be spamming the puppet developers mailing list just to get someone to look at an outstanding pull request.
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