Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2017-09-25 09:42:08 -0400: > On 09/25/2017 09:28 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > <snip> > > I'm less concerned with the motivation of someone submitting the > > patches than I am with their effect. Just like the situation we had > > with the bug squash days a year or so ago, if we had a poorly timed > > set of these trivial patches coming in at our feature freeze deadline, > > it would be extremely disruptive. So to me the fact that we're > > seeing them in large batches means we have people who are not fully > > engaged with the community and don't understand the impact they're > > having. My goal is to reach out and try to improve that engagement, > > and try to help them become more fully constructive contributors. > > I think that quantifying how big that impact is would be good before > deciding it needs to be a priority to act upon. There are lots of things > that currently swamp our system, and on my back of the envelope math and > spot checking on resources used, these really aren't a big concern. > > But it's harder to see that until we really start accounting for CI time > by project / person, and what kinds of things really do consume the system. > > -Sean >
Yes, that will be part of the work of the new group looking into the problem. The idea is to roll this specific problem up with a bunch of other things related to new contributors so we have a group actively thinking about better onboarding and engagement from a bunch of different angles. Watch the SIG mailing list for details. 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
