Isn't Adam Hawkins part of this team as well? Was he just helping to go
through issues with Steve K?




On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Rafael Mendonça França <
rafaelmfra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to be more clear we have more people in this team. Guillermo Iguaran,
> Arun Agrawal, Prem, Steve K., Carlos Antonio, Piotr Sarnacki, Andrew White
> and I.
>
> From this team, four members (Carlos, Piotr, Andrew and I) have commit
> access so we can also merge pull requests.
>
> There also more people helping to reproduce issues like Richard and
> Francesco Rodriguez.
>
> As Prem said, we are very busy these days, but we are a lot better. I
> remember that in weekend after the Railsconf, without knowing about the
> Rails Core Panel, Carlos Antonio and I closed almost 300 issues. We got the
> issues count down from 900+ to 400 in less than one week. Also we started
> to tag all the issues.
>
> I think in the next weeks I'll be back to the issues tracker to solve
> they. You can be sure that I'll read every single issue (newer or older)
> and answer they, as I did in the last 9 months.
>
> I'll very glad to have more people helping, and is a good idea start to
> work in the older tickets.
>
> Finally, as Prem said, we'll give permission to manage tickets when it's
> time.
>
> Rafael Mendonça França
> http://twitter.com/rafaelfranca
> https://github.com/rafaelfranca
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Prem Sichanugrist 
> <sikand...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We actually already have a team that's working on the issues (such as me
>> and Steve K.) We might be a little slow sometimes, but please trust me that
>> it's getting better than before now. :)
>>
>> I think currently everyone are so busy with Rails 4 release (we do want
>> to send some patches in as well) as they're right around the corner, so the
>> respond time might be a little slow. After the RC goes out, I'm planning to
>> do a big going-through the issues queue.
>>
>> If you would like to help us for now, feel free to go through those
>> issues, ping the appropriate person to respond to it, or ask if it can be
>> close. Rails Core team always appreciate your contribution, and I'm pretty
>> sure they won't hesitate to give you out the permission to manage tickets
>> when it's time.
>>
>> Thank you so much for stepping up for this.
>>
>> - Prem
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Godfrey Chan wrote:
>>
>> As Richard pointed out in the other thread, we have a lot of open issues,
>> and it'd be nice if we could do something about that. Evan tried to get
>> people to review GH issues at Railsconf, and I believe there were some
>> success there. Any interest in formalizing this effort and make it
>> sustainable?
>>
>> There are a few things about these issues that is pretty mechanical and
>> almost anyone could do it (I'll be the first to volunteer):
>>
>> 1. As new issues are coming in -
>> - Tag them appropriately (activerecord, activesupport, etc) - I think
>> someone is already doing this and they might or might not need more help
>> doing this
>> - Ask for logs and other clarifications from reporter if necessary
>>  - Do preliminary (re)searches in the source, find out who is most likely
>> to be the "owner" of the affected code and /cc (or perhaps even assign the
>> issue with the tag "needs triage" or something) them for feedback
>>  - Close inappropriate issues (inflector patches, feature requests,
>> questions etc) and direct the reporter to the right channels (stack
>> overflow, rails guides, mailing lists, etc)
>>
>> 2. For older tickets -
>>  - Review if they are still relevant
>> - Ping the reporters or the code owner for updates, and close the issues
>> as appropriate
>>
>> While some of these (mostly the communications part) can be done by just
>> anyone, I believe certain parts of the flow (tagging and closing tickets)
>> requires repo-collab access, so some formalized recruiting and management
>> effort would be necessary to make this effective. If granting full
>> collaborator access is a problem, perhaps it is something that we could try
>> working out with Github?
>>
>> Anyways, I'm happy to help here, and I'm sure there would be a few others
>> on the list who wouldn't mind committing a few hours per week doing this.
>> So let me know how I could best spend my time helping out here.
>>
>> Godfrey
>>
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