Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Alright, let's not attempt to mix new contributors and code review, then.
>> Thank you for your good arguments.

>>> 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.

>> As far as I can see, there are not 100 WMF employees capable of reviewing
>> changesets, even less of merging them. Not only this, expertise and +2
>> rights must be seen from the point of view of repositories, because not
>> every reviewer can review every patch. Once we solve "Bug 63533 - Gerrit
>> metrics about open changesets should ignore -1s", we will be able to see
>> what kind of problem we have, and that will help us decide what needs to be
>> done.

> Indeed. as it stands, there are only 78 people who have ever +2'd even
> a single changeset in mediawiki/core, of which only 53 are staff. So
> if 100 WMF employees reviewed a change set today, for roughly half of
> them it would be the first time they had ever done so (I've excluded
> extensions from this analysis. Also I counted quickly, don't use those
> numbers for anything important).

> Of course, by all means if you're a WMF employee who is knowledgeable
> enough to review something (Or if you are a volunteer that has +2
> rights and knowledgeable enough), there's no better time to start
> reviewing things then today :)

This implies that the changesets waiting for a reviewer only
need someone to +2 them in the condition that they are in at
the moment.  I'd guess (no data to back it up! :-)) this is
not correct for the majority of changesets that will need
several iterations to incorporate (valid) suggestions from
the review.

Tim


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