Hi goffi, On Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2021 15:00:33 CEST goffi wrote: > I've been checking current Pull Requests on hold recently, and I see a > large number of them are blocked by "Needs Author", "Needs Council" or > "Needs Board", and I'm really interested in seeing some of them merged.
Yep. > I'm pretty sure that many of those PRs are just forgotten, and the > longer they're forgotten, the harder it will be to merge them due to > merge conflicts or other issues. Yep. > Thus I'm proposing that the council and board do a review of all waiting > PRs, something like once a month. Of course if may be tedious the first > time, but hopefully the number of blocked PRs will shrink quickly. Normally, it would be kind of the Editor's job to stay on top of the approving bodies if they don't manage to process PRs. However, the Editor is currently mostly just me. And I'm also Council Chair. I'm trying to do a good job at this; I'm also "fine" if it's just me who does the busywork on the repository itself, but it would be tremendously helpful if people from the community stepped up to do this kind of triaging and housekeeping in the PR list. So if you want to create a list of PRs which seem blocking on Council for you, please do so and send them to me directly. I'll match them with my records of council votes and we'll see what needs to be done about them. If you want to be *really* awesome, you first filter out ones with obvious solutions by comparing them against meeting minutes which have been posted to standards@ (searching by PR number gets you surprisingly far, but sometimes you may also have to filter by date). Then you could include references to those items in the list of PRs, taking further load off me :). > An other problem is that lot of PRs are blocked by "Needs Author", > either because the author(s) forgot, or because they're not interested > in the XMPP community anymore, or just disappeared. What is the policy > in those cases, and can be unblock the currently concerned PRs? If a PR is blocked with Needs Author and the Author is truly absent from the community, the Council can always override authorship. In general, we (the Editors) try to contact the authors on two or three different venues first. This has happened with XEP-0283 just recently. kind regards & thanks, Jonas
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