I would appreciate it if people gave me a few days before abandoning
all my patches.

I will be rotating back onto pywikibot next week, as I am mentoring a
Pywikibot GSOC project, and will start to go through my patches.

Also, the other thread about developing a roadmap is a very good idea.
That will help people with large sets of stale patches to work out
what needs to be worked on first.

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On the recent hackathon in Vienna we talked about the large number of
> changes still open and how to get the flow back. We currently have over 300
> open changes going back to 2014 (
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:pywikibot/core ). A
> change is in Gerrit because the developer wants code review to get it
> merged. Code review might not be a lot of fun and this is made worse by this
> huge backlog.
> A lot of the changes have issues preventing this:
> * Merge conflict, needs to be rebased
> * Not verified, tests fail
> * Code review -1, -2
> My proposal is to abandon the changes we're not going to work on anyway and
> focus our attention on the changes we do want to get merged. I understand
> that some changes in which people invested a lot of time and effort will get
> abandoned, but I think the benefit of getting the code review process back
> on track is higher. Abandoned changes are not gone, we can always open them
> again.
>
> I ask everyone who has (a lot of) old open changes to have a look at them
> and make the decision: Pick it up or abandon. If the change is linked to a
> phabricator task, it would be nice to update the task too.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maarten
>
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