In the past, Ahmet and I spent some time each week reviewing and pinging
pull requests. This did not happen the past few weeks due to some vacations
and travel. I do think pinging is effective for many of the PRs at least.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Lukasz Cwik <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My experience is that it takes a good amount of time to review PRs and a
> good portion of my time spent contributing to this project is by reviewing
> PRs.
> I currently have 3 out of 10 PRs that are older then 2 weeks so in my
> experience pinging people to about progress has been pretty effective.
> Out of those older PRs, 2 of those PRs I have heard back from the authors
> and that they would attempt to get back to it soon.
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have hit 100 open pull requests today*. It is an arbitrary number,
> but a
> > good excuse to note the upward trend. In part, I think it is simply
> having
> > more changes happening, which is cool. But it is also due to review
> > latency. Sorting by "last updated" the first two pages range from 6+
> months
> > to 16 days ago.
> >
> > We may, first of all, need a sweep to close stalled / no-go PRs.
> >
> > After that, having a triage process where someone drops in on PRs and
> asks
> > "any update?" has not been terrifically helpful in my experience (and
> also
> > obscures how stale PRs are) but is perhaps the most active measure we've
> > taken in the past.
> >
> > Gitbox will probably make it easier to see who is requested to review a
> PR
> > and whether it is waiting on the reviewer or the author. That may help.
> >
> > Any other thoughts?
> >
> > Kenn
> >
> > *I'm part of the problem; 16 of them contain the phrase "R: @kennknowles"
> > and I also have ~4 outgoing PRs that have stalled
> >
>

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