Hi everyone, We've had a couple of community fails on GitHub recently: https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/1474#issuecomment-241283056 https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/2080 (The last one is missing a presumably-deleted comment where someone outside the project recommended to a potential contributor to just fork the project!).
That's just the couple I've noticed, I'm sure there are lots more. We definitely have many, many abandoned PRs from >1y, >2y ago. Obviously, something in our process isn't working. I don't have immediate solutions, but here's a couple of suggestions: - we need a system to assign core devs to PRs/issues. Currently, it's too easy for all of us to go, "someone else on the team will handle this". We need a fair way to assign a manager to each issue/PR. The assigned dev wouldn't necessarily be responsible for review, but they would be responsible for chasing up other reviewers. - NEVER close a PR without the explicit consent of the contributor, OR after the contributor has been non-responsive for e.g. 1mo and two pings. In this last situation I would even suggest that we need two core devs to sign off. Other suggestions welcome in this thread. We should try to get a new process hammered out very soon. I also want to acknowledge @soupault for his triage/labelling work, which is a massive step in the right direction. But we need to follow up his triage with some actual process. Juan. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scikit-image" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to scikit-image+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to scikit-image@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/scikit-image/CA%2BJHcKSh-k%2ByM0yBTRzTy%3DZgY7%2BOoEmPkKNA4xUgudeyhCJ5Dw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
