As Richard pointed out in the other thread, we have a lot of open issues, and
it'd be nice if we could do something about that. Evan tried to get people to
review GH issues at Railsconf, and I believe there were some success there. Any
interest in formalizing this effort and make it sustainable?
There are a few things about these issues that is pretty mechanical and almost
anyone could do it (I'll be the first to volunteer):
1. As new issues are coming in -
- Tag them appropriately (activerecord, activesupport, etc) - I think
someone is already doing this and they might or might not need more help doing
this
- Ask for logs and other clarifications from reporter if necessary
- Do preliminary (re)searches in the source, find out who is most
likely to be the "owner" of the affected code and /cc (or perhaps even assign
the issue with the tag "needs triage" or something) them for feedback
- Close inappropriate issues (inflector patches, feature requests,
questions etc) and direct the reporter to the right channels (stack overflow,
rails guides, mailing lists, etc)
2. For older tickets -
- Review if they are still relevant
- Ping the reporters or the code owner for updates, and close the
issues as appropriate
While some of these (mostly the communications part) can be done by just
anyone, I believe certain parts of the flow (tagging and closing tickets)
requires repo-collab access, so some formalized recruiting and management
effort would be necessary to make this effective. If granting full collaborator
access is a problem, perhaps it is something that we could try working out with
Github?
Anyways, I'm happy to help here, and I'm sure there would be a few others on
the list who wouldn't mind committing a few hours per week doing this. So let
me know how I could best spend my time helping out here.
Godfrey
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