Thanks for the initiative Jacques. Let's see how this experiment goes and then let's try to fine tune it; if it is successful we could even set up a page in the Wiki with a list of top contributors (people that have provided the biggest number of votes/reviews/testing), this could be a nice way to keep record of their effort and it would also be a measure of their contributions useful when the PMC will discuss to invite new committers.
Jacopo On May 12, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Hi dear Apache OFBiz users, > > We have currently around 850 opened Jira issues, and within, 134 issues with > patches provided. Obviously we, committers, can't cope alone with the > contribution activity (remember, it's benevolent work). > > Some time ago we had a dicussion between PMC (Project Management Committee > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/JoB2) members about how to improve the > quality and quantity of patches committed. > > We want to ask you, users, to help test, review and vote on pending issues, > notably those with patches provided. > > We even discussed a voting/vetting process with a number of votes threshold. > We would not review or commit issues that don't have more than a threshold > number of votes and maybe at least one person other than the person who > opened the issue who claims to have reviewed the code and tested it. I > suggest this would not be a rule, a but a rule of thumb to be adjusted by > experience. We could test it during a period and then fix the threshold > (number of votes) and maybe other rules like diversity (sometimes you would > notice votes from persons of the same company than the contributor), etc. > > Hopefully this would give contributors an incentive to solicit help from > others in the community, leading to more community interaction and along with > it more useful expectations, and eventually better quality and quantity of > patches committed. > > We could begin this process today with > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4472 > > Thanks for your attention, and, as ever, all suggestions are welcome. > > Jacques
