Le lun. 14 févr. 2022 à 16:11, Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > Code not actively developed does not attract newcomers. > Well I have to say the reason for "codes not actively developed" is a > strong lack of alive committers, or more detailed, reviewers.
In part, yes, but they are the consequence of each other (i.e. a vicious circle). The main cause IMHO, is that we loose[1] the spirit of being dedicated to a project/component. Contributions are "dropped" as PR (usually) without follow-up (either here or on JIRA). > I have still 100+ unsolved prs in commons projects, some of which be 1 or 2 > years ago, but it seems there just are not enough reviewers, and pr lists > in every repo grows longer and longer. That's the downside (in plain view?) of GH for a project that lacks human resources (like "Commons") necessary for trimming the list of PRs in a timely manner. As you said in another comment, the PRs look like a stack; if there is just one active committer, they rapidly become stale (because "master" changes). Yet the OP quite often just lets them rot there. A "dedicated" contributor should follow development, update the PRs, collect them in JIRA, based on the type of issue that they fix. IMHO, that work would establish a natural priority, speed up the review (and become a measure of dedication[2]). > But on the other hand, free reviewers who have both ability and willingness > to review, well, are really lacking, it is the truth. [1] Largely "thanks" to GitHub IMO. [2] Which the number of PRs cannot be by itself. > > Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> 于2022年2月14日周一 22:34写道： > > > Le lun. 14 févr. 2022 à 14:34, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> a > > écrit : > > > > > > My guess is that this is a combination of the maturity of the components > > > > The "maturity" rationale is not an explanation; it is a cause. > > Code not actively developed does not attract newcomers. > > It is not an "opinion" anymore; it is backed by the fact that > > "Commons Math" API modernization had stalled on the basis > > of that rationale; yet since the path has been unblocked, work > > on [RNG], [Numbers], [Geometry], [Statistics] and [Math] itself > > demonstrated how much room there was for improving[1] those > > "mature" codes. > > > > Regards, > > Gilles > > > > [1] Thanks to all who did it! > > > > > and people having moved on to jobs or hobbies that no longer requires > > these > > > components. > > > > > > Gary > > > > > >>> [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
