Hi Juan, thanks for bringing these issues to light. How about we tackle the queue of open PRs from its two ends? That is, for the new PRs we have this manager system (we still need to decide how to assign them), and at the same time we go through old PRs to try to unblock or (worst case) close them?
Best, Emma On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:47:16PM +1000, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: > 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/20160822212651.GC1708463%40phare.normalesup.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
