On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 18:48:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR
sprint" at the first weekend of very month?
We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot"
bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty
of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get
involved.
Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a
bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this
weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D
bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can
finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on
them.
What do you think? Is this something worth trying?
Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for
all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if
you got more than X PRs merged).
I like the idea, but our current deficiency is not contributions,
but reviews. If we do something like this, we'll probably get
more PRs in the queue, but they may end up sitting there waiting
for a decision through to the next sprint. I, alone, could
easily fill the PR queue with more contributions from my backlog,
but that will just take resources away from other PRs waiting for
review.
IMO what we need is a way to increase the number of people who
have the talent and good judgement to quickly bring PRs to a
resolution (merge or close), and to mentor contributors so they
can become mentors themselves. With more review capacity (and
velocity) we'd probably get more contributions organically
without any additional effort or organization.
Mike
