Hello guys, Sometimes when I look at the BOINC repo on GitHub and see many open pull requests (22 at this time) which are opened many days or weeks or months this makes me sad. And there are no any activities with these pull requests. Some pull requests have no answers and comments from the committee. It looks like no one are interested in the help of third-party contributors. And this makes me sad more. I want to change this. I want this because I think that this application is very important for our world. That is why I want to see it developing. Unfortunately I can do almost nothing in this situation so I made a decision to write monthly digest with list of opened pull requests and my comments about them. Maybe this mail will let you to spend a couple of minutes of your time to make some decision about these pull requests. So, let's start.
*July 2017, 22 open pull requests.* #1604: BOINC GAHP: print SVN_VERSION with --version CLA Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1604 Opened: 4 Aug 2016 *Age: 360 days* Status: 1 comment from Christian Beer. No other actions. Comments: GAHP specific. Some resolution needed either to accept Christian's proposition or decline this pull request completely. #1605: BOINC GAHP condor input template Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1605 Opened: 4 Aug 2016 *Age: 360 days* Status: *No comments* Comments: GAHP specific. Should be reviewed. #1638: Fix c++11 build Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1638 Opened: 2 Sep 2016 *Age: 331 days* Status: Work suspended. Comments: Should be reviewed by someone who is familiar with FastCGI. #1821: Build: restructure build process on Mac to make it more flexible and allow CI support Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1821 Opened: 17 Mar 2017 *Age: 135 days* Status: Work seems to be finished. Waiting for review. *No comments.* Comments: This is very helpfull pull request. Should be added to CI as from my POV. #1827: Remote job submission: first draft of protocol spec file for BOINC-GAHP Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1827 Opened: 24 Mar 2017 *Age: 128 days* Status: Need to be reviewed. Comments: GAHP related documentation. #1854: Manager: display zero free space in disk tab Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1854 Opened: 6 Apr 2017 *Age: 115 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: *This is a fix for an issue which was originally found 9(!) years ago.* #1855: Build: install locale files in out-of-tree builds Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1855 Opened: 6 Apr 2017 *Age: 115 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: Small but important build fix. Should be reviewed. #1863: Build: use default sysconfdir instead of /etc Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1863 Opened: 11 Apr 2017 *Age: 110 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: Small but important build fix. Should be reviewed. #1865: Build: test if hard links are really working Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1865 Opened: 11 Apr 2017 *Age: 110 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: *This is a fix for an issue which was originally found 4(!) years ago.* #1878: SCHED_BATCH -> SCHED_IDLE Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1878 Opened: 22 Apr 2017 *Age: 99 days* Status: Ready for review. Comments: This pull request changes a bit a task priority under linux. Should be reviewed and some decision should be made. #1886: Build Windows: Add AppVeyor support for Windows CI builds. Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1886 Opened: 25 Apr 2017 *Age: 96 days* Status: Ready for review. Comments: This pull request add another CI (AppVeyor) service to run Windows build. This is very helpful as well as #1821 (Mac CI build). #1895: Move 'strlen' function outside of the loop Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1895 Opened: 2 May 2017 *Age: 89 days* Status: Ready for review. Comments: This pull request affects performance of the boinc application and makes a code a little bit cleaner. It doesn't decrease readability of the code. Not all this actions can be made by compiler. #1946: Modifications that have been included in the version that is currently used by LHC@home. Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1946 Opened: 20 Jun 2017 *Age: 40 days.* Status: In progress. Comments: Pull request is not ready for merge now. #1956: Lib: fix escape_url() for UTF8 encoded strings Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1956 Opened: 26 Jun 2017 *Age: 33 days* Status: Has conflicts. Comments: This pull request was reintroduced by David Anderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/ff7633a65def104b81a82b839f98fbe4b383f42f . This pull request can be closed as from my POV but need review before this. #1968: db_purge: use zlib Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1968 Opened: 11 Jul 2017 *Age: 19 days* Status: Build is failed. Comments: Should be reviewed. In case of positive decision Travis build configuration should be changed to prevent build fail. #1977: winbuild: add keyword.{h,cpp} to VS2013 solution Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1977 Opened: 17 Jul 2017 *Age: 12 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: Important pull request to fix build on VS2013. #1978: client: add task name and tweak postponed message Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1978 Opened: 17 Jul 2017 *Age: 12 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: This pull request add some helpful information to logs. Should be reviewed. #1979: client/lib: don't flush stdout and stderr in main loop Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1979 Opened: 17 Jul 2017 *Age: 12 days* Status: Ready for review. Comments: Should be reviewed. #1980: lib: fix out of bounds write in get_real_executable_path Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1980 Opened: 17 Jul 2017 *Age: 12 days* Status: Ready for review. *No comments.* Comments: Should be reviewed. Very important fix of a quite dangerous bug. #1933: Drupal: Added a second link to rules-and-policies Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1993 Opened: 26 Jul 2017 *Age: 3 days* Status: Ready. Comments: I'm sure this will be reviewed and merged by @tristanolive in a several days. #1995: Drupal: Forum top links are now placed into two columns. Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1995 Opened: 26 Jul 2017 *Age: 3 days* Status: Ready. Comments: I'm sure this will be reviewed and merged by @tristanolive in a several days. #1997: Drupal: Fixed bug where anonymous users, who are not logged in, could … Link: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1997 Opened: 28 Jul 2017 *Age: 1 day* Status: Ready. Comments: I'm sure this will be reviewed and merged by @tristanolive in a several days. 22 open pull requests is not a good sign for new people who can be interested in BOINC development. So please guys lets make the project looks a little bit better. Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Vitalii Koshura _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
