Hi Constantine,

21 mars 2021 13:40:22 Constantine Gavrilov <con...@il.ibm.com>:

> Pascal, thank you for your answer.
>
> What would be a reasonable time to wait? A week, two weeks, a month? Long 
> review times a problem by themselves, since I cannot move ahead. But it is 
> not even a problem of waiting as much, as it is a problem of communication 
> loss. Dropping a line " will review it within 3 weeks" or "cannot handle it, 
> too busy" "or will review later" is far less problematic then ignoring the 
> question "can you review it, please?"

Come on, it has been two days, including the weekend. I hardly see where there 
is a communication issue here, simply people that do not spend all their time 
behind their computer screen. To be honest I would have better understood your 
push if it had been a full week without any feedback, but not after one day 
(long review time? That's really what you are thinking?).  I see some other 
open source projects where the submitted patches do not get any attention 
during weeks. We could definitely do better, but I do not think we are the 
worst.

>
>
> I have nothing personal to gain from this. It is true that I am using 
> wireshark for my work on NVMEoF, but if I cannot interest the community with 
> this work, I can fork the tree locally and continue without submitting the 
> changes. Doing this for community was an act of contibution and a hard work, 
> but I will not impose if there is no cooperation. As I have said, I do not 
> think recognition. If there is an interest and someone will come up to 
> reveiew the changes, than I continue to contibute. If the attitude is "do not 
> bother us", why should I care?

We appreciate your contribution, and if you think this is not the case please 
give some examples. I'm just reminding you (as Anders did already) that we are 
volonteersand not paid for the time we spend on the project, and that we also 
have a professional and personal life that have their own constraints, and 
priority over the Wireshark project. Having a few days delay is not the end of 
the world, fortunately.

Best regards,
Pascal.

>
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> From:        Pascal Quantin <pas...@wireshark.org>
> To:        Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>
> Date:        03/21/2021 12:02 PM
> Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: [Wireshark-dev] Improvments for NVMeOF 
> dissector
> Sent by:        "Wireshark-dev" <wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org>
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>
>
> Hi Constantine, If I read the review history correctly, you were asked to 
> perform some changes that you did 2 days ago. This is not abnormal not to get 
> any feedback in such a short period, and that does not mean the receiver lost 
> interest but
> Hi Constantine,
>
> If I read the review history correctly, you were asked to perform some 
> changes that you did 2 days ago. This is not abnormal not to get any feedback 
> in such a short period, and that does not mean the receiver lost interest but 
> simply that he is busy.
> So my suggestion is to be a bit more patient as reviewers usually do their 
> best according to the time they can give to the project. Being too pushy can 
> give the exact opposite of what you would like. Just my two cents.
>
> Best regards,
> Pascal.
>
> 21 mars 2021 10:47:02 Constantine Gavrilov <con...@il.ibm.com>:
>
> Sometime ago, I started to work on NVMEoF dissector. I have already 
> contributed the number of fixes and improvements and they have already been 
> merged.
>
> My goal is to have a full dissection for connection establishment, management 
> and IO flow, and I would like to move on quickly.
>
> The goal is to contribute back to the community. I am not seeking recognition 
> -- I have plenty of that in my place of work. The goal is to help and express 
> my gratitude to the project.
>
> After initial changes merged, I am stuck at getting my current merge request 
> (_#17282[/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17282]_)reviewed. I understand that 
> this is a volunteer project and all people are busy. But I do have a problem 
> with broken line of communication. My personal opinion is that if a core 
> developer "picks up" the merge request and has review comments, they shall 
> follow up on the requested changes that a contributor has provided. If they 
> loose focus or interest, they shall inform the contributor, instead of just 
> "disappearing".  As a contributor,  I can control any form of merge request 
> assignment or have control over who will look at the merge request.
>
> The fact that people are busy goes both ways -- for contributors as well as 
> core developers. I am looking into improving my contribution experience for 
> NVMEoF. Perhaps there is a core developer who is willing to look at the 
> changes and has sufficient interest and available time to work with me on 
> reviewing NVMEoF dissector changes? As it stands now, I feel blocked from 
> contributing (just because the speed of the review and people dropping off). 
> I am busy and will eventually have hard choices to make...
>
> Perhaps I can get approval to join core developers?
>
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