Doug, Howard (cc'ed) already did a bunch of reaching out especially on wechat. We should request his help.
Howard, Can you please help with communications and follow up? Thanks, Dims On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2017-09-22 08:26:31 -0500: >> On 9/22/2017 7:10 AM, Tom Barron wrote: >> > FWIW I think it is better not to attribute motivation in these cases. >> > Perhaps the code submitter is trying to pad stats, but perhaps they are >> > just a new contributor trying to learn the process with a "harmless" >> > patch, or just a compulsive clean-upper who hasn't thought through the >> > costs in reviewer time and CI resources. >> >> I agree. However, the one that set me off last night was a person from >> one company who I've repeatedly -1ed the same types of patches in nova >> for weeks, including on stable branches, and within 10 minutes of each >> other across several repos, so it's clearly part of some daily routine. >> That's what prompted me to send something to the mailing list. >> > > As fungi points out, education and communication are likely to be > our best solution. Maybe one approach is to identify the companies > and individuals involved and find one of our community members to > contact them directly via email. We would want the person doing > that to be willing to explain all of the reasons the community does > not want the sort of activity we are rejecting and to provide > guidance about more useful contributions (Matt's comment is a great > start on both). I imagine that conversation would take a good deal > of patience, especially after the second or third time, but a personal > touch frequently makes all the difference in these sorts of cases. > > If we have someone willing to step into that sort of role, I would > be happy to help craft the initial contact messages and advise as > needed. > > Does anyone want to volunteer to work with me and actually send the > emails? > > Doug > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev