Hi, I wanted to decouple the conversation about solutions to the issue from job execution requests. We have 131 open PRs right now and 64 committers with job running privileges. From what I counted, more than 80 of those PRs are not authored by committers. I think that having committers answer testing and retesting requests is a temporary solution and a permanent one should be decided upon soon. While it's an inconvenience for contributors familiar with the workings of the project and the community, newcomers might be put off by the fact that the tests don't run automatically on their pull requests (this is an industry standard which IMO should be upheld also in Beam). The barrier of finding one of committers who is active and willing to trigger their tests can make the entry to the project more difficult.
I believe that the solution proposed by Kenneth in the Jira thread https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19670 is viable. The questions are: do we want to implement this idea and what needs to be done to do it? Regards Michał -- Michał Walenia Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Software Engineer M: +48 791 432 002 <+48791432002> E: [email protected] Unique Tech Check out our projects! <https://www.polidea.com/our-work>
