Some stats I'm seeing plotted out: https://gist.github.com/seanghaeli/8fb41609f15c2ab403949cefbe43ff40
Looking at the current queue of open PRs, there's a long-tailed distribution for PR age (first plot). I expected a strong correlation between PR age and its size (second plot), but the connection is quite weak (except for very large PRs spanning 1k+ lines). I'm interpreting PR size as a proxy for PR complexity. Seeing this, I think that there's room for a stronger forcing function to our review process to make that PR age distribution much steeper without diluting review quality. This goes back to my suggestion of explicitly weighting PR authors' level of contribution to other PR reviews, which would act as a natural forcing function. I'm not sure how to quantify it, but I suspect contributor retention would improve with quicker feedback loops on their work. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
