[Python-Dev] Burning down the backlog.

[Robert Collins]

On 21 July 2015 at 19:40, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of this is why the chart that I believe should be worrying people
> is the topmost one on this page:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue?@template=stats
>
> Both the number of open issues and the number of open issues with
> patches are steadily trending upwards. That means the bottleneck in
> the current process *isn't* getting patches written in the first
> place, it's getting them up to the appropriate standards and applied.
> Yet the answer to the problem isn't a simple "recruit more core
> developers", as the existing core developers are *also* the bottleneck
> in the review and mentoring process for *new* core developers.

Those charts doesn't show patches in 'commit-review' -
http://bugs.python.org/issue?%40columns=title&%40columns=id&stage=5&%40columns=activity&%40sort=activity&status=1&%40columns=status&%40pagesize=50&%40startwith=0&%40sortdir=on&%40action=search

There are only 45 of those patches.

AIUI - and I'm very new to core here - anyone in triagers can get
patches up to commit-review status.

I think we should set a goal to keep inventory low here - e.g. review
and either bounce back to patch review, or commit, in less than a
month. Now - a month isn't super low, but we have lots of stuff
greater than a month.

For my part, I'm going to pick up more or less one thing a day and
review it, but I think it would be great if other committers were to
also to do this: if we had 5 of us doing 1 a day, I think we'd burn
down this 45 patch backlog rapidly without significant individual
cost. At which point, we can fairly say to folk doing triage that
we're ready for patches :)

-Rob



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