Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...]

>> This is also completely the wrong way to go about open-source development.
>> The work priorities of volunteers are the thing that you, as manager of
>> paid staff, *can't* control, as opposed to the work priorities of paid
>> staff, which you very much can.

> Agreed, and one of the reasons for producing these metrics is to help paid
> developers prioritize their work taking into account the task of reviewing
> the contributions they receive. However...

> [...]

This sounds like a guide to procrastination.  "There was so
much work to choose from, boss, so I did none."

I'm still (a bit) interested in the effect of all this man-
agement on improving the process
(cf. 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54497),
but if the issue at hand is to review the ~ 2500 "code re-
views waiting for reviewer", if every one of the ~ 100 WMF
employees reviews one (additional) changeset per workday,
the task will be done by the end of this month.

There is already https://gerrit.wikimedia.org, "git review
-l" and Jon's (brilliant) tool
(cf. https://raw.github.com/jdlrobson/GerritCommandLine/master/gerrit.py)
to pick a change to review; and the nice thing about
reviewing all of them in a foreseeable time period is that
you don't have to prioritize!  Just pick any!

Just in case it got lost in transmission: Pick any!

Tim


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