I'm not sure I agree with the bullish assessment on all fronts haha, but I love the call to action! Both as individuals and as a group we can be doing more to help out contributors.
As an aside - I haven't played around with the Github Copilot stuff you mentioned. (Largely because I've been pretty happy with Claude). Maybe I'm alone in being a late adopter there, but if I'm not then maybe that'd make a good demo for our community meetup? Show other committers something that you've seemingly found revolutionary in your review workflow. > Eric cleverly convinced me I wasn't doing enough Never listen to Eric :-p Jason On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 12:27 PM Arup Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe we can get a dedicated open source code review bot and tweak it’s code > for us. That should instill more confidence :) > > > > > On Sep 2, 2026, at 8:02 PM, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's never been an easier time as a committer to be the shepherd/reviewer > > to a non-committer PR. We have automated code reviews via GitHub co-pilot > > (need to add as a reviewer to engage). No longer do we have to edit a > > massive CHANGES.txt to pick a version that might be wrong or even know the > > version. No longer do we have the chore of back-porting, for the vast > > majority of PRs. Just pick a final destination Milestone on the PR and > > please DM me a "thank you" if you appreciate this. An LLM armed with a > > script is usually going to do this more thoroughly than you would have > > (i.e. it actually considers multiple CI jobs and usually runs tests before > > push). And recently, I'll manually "resolve" the JIRA issue as well as the > > final step (if it looks like a one-shot PR issue) -- Eric cleverly > > convinced me I wasn't doing enough, so I've got this ;-). It's really > > rather satisfying. > > > > So with that said, I want to ask the committers here that don't review > > other people's PRs to please do so, especially those of contributors. You > > have powers they don't -- you can get something merged. The contributor > > will be grateful; remember being in their shoes. You can fully handle a PR > > responsiby without leaving the GitHub PR issue screen -- at least most of > > the time. > > > > p.s. I'm also grateful for Crave.io for very fast builds... but we'll need > > to do without this by the end of the year :-( > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
