On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:06 PM Nathaniel Smith njs@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 4:40 AM, Berker Peksağ berker.peksag@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't about my or someone else's high standards. We keep saying we need more triagers and reviewers, and we keep promoting people who didn't do any issue triaging and code review. It's not fair to contributors who have spent so much time working on these areas.
Just to be clear, Berker, I really appreciate the time folks (including you) put into the more thankless (and often tedious) tasks like bug triage and code review (and triaging buildbot failures). I for one need to spend more of my open-source time on that. No one should ever feel like they have to do more than their fair share.
Surely the solution is to promote more people who do those things, not to turn away people making other contributions? We need more contributors of all kinds.
I agree completely. However, Berker's concern is a real (and honest) one, regardless of its bearing on accepting new core developers. It also reflects a real, continuing problem: a shortage of folks doing bug triage/curation and code review. Unfortunately, this has a chain reaction effect by discouraging people from pursuing more involvement in core development. For instance, if someone creates a PR but it sits there for a year they eventually give up. On the other hand, sometimes aspiring core contributors question the value of giving a PR a review if a core committer is going to review it themself before possibly merging. (I realize there are good reasons for any code review, but that is the reaction I've gotten from people on occasion.)
The consequent question is how to get more people resolving open tracker issues and giving PR reviews? Off-hand, I'm not sure. :/ We've discussed this before and it's probably time to discuss it again. Any ideas?
-eric