On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Jeff Darcy <jda...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The feedback I got is, "it is not motivating to review patches that are > > already merged by maintainer." > > I can totally understand that. I've been pretty active reviewing lately, > and it's an *awful* demotivating grind. On the other hand, it's also > pretty demotivating to see one's own hard work "rot" as the lack of > reviews forces rebase after rebase. Haven't we all seen that? I'm > sure the magnitude of that effect varies across teams and across parts > of the code, but I'm equally sure that it affects all of us to some > degree. > > > > Do you suggest they should change that > > behaviour in that case? > > Maybe. The fact is that all of our maintainers have plenty of other > responsibilities, and not all of them prioritize the same way. I know I > wouldn't be reviewing so many patches myself otherwise. If reviews are > being missed under the current rules, maybe we do need new rules. > > > let us give equal recognition for: > > patches sent > > patches reviewed - this one is missing. > > helping users on gluster-users > > helping users on #gluster/#gluster-dev > > > > Feel free to add anything more I might have missed out. May be new > > ideas/design/big-refactor? > > Also doc, infrastructure work, blog/meetup/conference outreach, etc. > Bug triage (more generally collecting information from field on how things are working, what we are lacking) Testing Performance measurements Futuristic thinking (new features, rewrites etc) Channelizing our collective brain-power and prioritization of things to work on (roadmap etc) Handling competition (Defence/Constructive arguments etc). I know all of this are not easy to measure (and may be out of scope of this discussion). But, it doesn't hurt to list things needed to make a project/product successful. > > let people do what they like more among these and let us also recognize > them > > for all their contributions. Let us celebrate their work in each monthly > > news letter. > > Good idea. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@gluster.org > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Raghavendra G
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