Hi,
That's great to discuss before developping new feature.
Why don't we use a idea voting system platform or +1 button of ideas in
github issue to vote and discuss for most waited next feature?
Cheers,
Le jeu. 14 nov. 2019 à 12:43, Oleg Hahm <o...@riot-os.org> a écrit :
> Dear reviewing IOTlers,
>
> the RIOT maintainer meeting that happened yesterday triggered some thoughts
> about our common workflow [1] when it comes to pull request introducing new
> features, new hardware support, or new concepts.
>
> The first observation is that proposing something new goes often along with
> quite a bunch of implementation already done. On the one hand, this
> sometimes
> steer discussions into the wrong direction where some people already start
> to
> dig into implementation details while the discussion about the general
> approach haven't yet concluded. On the other hand, the contributor is much
> more reluctant to change his or her approach (or even give up on it)
> because
> so much time has been spent for implementing it.
>
> The second observation is that the typical scenario is that a single person
> proposes a pull request and then tries to convince the rest of the
> community
> that the idea and realization are good and worthwhile to be integrated into
> RIOT master. Depending on the openness of this person regarding feedback
> and
> his or her responsiveness the lifetime of the pull request and the effort
> spent on it (from both sides) can easily explode.
>
> As an idea how to tackle both problems, I think it could be useful to
> change
> this "one against all" approach (over-exaggerating here, of course). If
> someone wants to propose something new, he or she could ask for a somewhat
> experienced RIOT developer to pair up with (we could think of it as a
> sparring
> partner and sponsor if you like). So, one could first discuss the idea and
> the
> realization approach with this partner, before actually starting the
> implementation. Then, both (or potentially more people) would present the
> PR
> to the rest of the community and try to defend and improved it together.
>
> Cheers
> Oleg
>
> [1] Excuse me for still talking about "we" and "us" here although I haven't
> contributed anything for a long time. And also excuse me if I'm not
> taking
> recent developments in this respect into account.
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