Our current proposal time limit was set in the days of subversion when we
had a single "trunk" and relatively strong divisions between modules in our
library. The idea being that a 3-day waiting period was good enough for
feedback before starting work :)
To avoid stagnation by lack of interest/time from community members the
following assurances are provided:
- svn access for changes is granted within 3 days from the proposal
- proposal is accepted ‘automatically’ within 15 days (unless objections
are raised)
Now that we have GitHub and pull requests developers can work more
independently "svn access" is no longer a bottleneck, however it is still
easy to let proposals alone for days without feedback (and then be
surprised when the pull request comes in.
I would like to propose reducing our "accepted automatically" time to 10
days (giving two work weeks, and two weekends for PMC feedback).
I think we can also start sharing proposals with the user list
Here is what that change looks like:
To avoid stagnation by lack of interest/time from community members:
- please share work-in-progress as a draft pull request for early
feedback
- community feedback and welcomed and encouraged
- any remaining proposal PMC votes considered +0 ‘automatically’
after 10 days
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Jody Garnett
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