Hi dear Apache OFBiz users, We have currently around 850 opened Jira issues, and within, 134 issues with patches provided. Obviously we, committers, can't cope alone with the contribution activity (remember, it's benevolent work).
Some time ago we had a dicussion between PMC (Project Management Committee https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/JoB2) members about how to improve the quality and quantity of patches committed. We want to ask you, users, to help test, review and vote on pending issues, notably those with patches provided. We even discussed a voting/vetting process with a number of votes threshold. We would not review or commit issues that don't have more than a threshold number of votes and maybe at least one person other than the person who opened the issue who claims to have reviewed the code and tested it. I suggest this would not be a rule, a but a rule of thumb to be adjusted by experience. We could test it during a period and then fix the threshold (number of votes) and maybe other rules like diversity (sometimes you would notice votes from persons of the same company than the contributor), etc. Hopefully this would give contributors an incentive to solicit help from others in the community, leading to more community interaction and along with it more useful expectations, and eventually better quality and quantity of patches committed. We could begin this process today with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4472 Thanks for your attention, and, as ever, all suggestions are welcome. Jacques
