Hello devs, I think everyone has noticed that there are some parts of project maintenance that have been lagging in the past few months.
The good new is that the list has been really active, and I think that we really have been trying to get back to everyone. Despite a lot of responses from a lot of committers and contributors, there have been at least a fair number of threads that received no response, or didn't lead to a resolution of the issue for the user. On github there are currently 80ish open pull requests, while some are abandoned or replaced by other work, there are a number of instances of good contributions that are waiting for review. I don't have some magical prescription about how to solve this, but one small change we could make would be revive this document [1] for designating a primary list manager for each week. This role does not have to be terribly burdening, or even require a committer to fulfill it. Many of the questions on the list simply need to be marshalled into a JIRA with enough info for a reproduction of the bug, or in other cases just require a pointer to a doc page or existing JIRA on the thread to answer a question. As far as the outstanding reviews are concerned, it might make sense for the list manager to also try to make sure that contributions have an assigned reviewer when they are posted. Thoughts? Does it make sense to try to get something like this going, is there something that made this effort fade away the last time we tried it that we should change? [1] - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bEQKk16Kktb1XeZwKD8xCuhaO8FtNfF1Cr2rcTv1a6M
