Hi and thanks for joining the discussion! On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 20:37 -0400, Thomas Eugene Bishop wrote: > Here’s a specific example, created in 2015: > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116145 < > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116145> > > > A bug fix was provided years ago but never accepted or rejected. It’s > the first and last MediaWiki bug ever assigned to me. I’ve just > unassigned myself. > > In cases like this, remarks like “Because you did not fix these bugs” > and “... anyone is free to pick it up and work on it ... No further > response needed” miss the point. When a bug fix is provided, but > nobody with authority to accept or reject it ever does so, that’s a > failure on the part of those who have authority, not on the part of > those who are able and willing to fix bugs. Sure, volunteers are > “free” to waste their time! > > You need to use and share your authority more effectively, to “be > bold” with accepting and rejecting bug fixes. Authorize more people > to accept or reject bug fixes. Assign each proposed bug fix to one > such person, starting with the oldest bugs. Then hold those people > accountable. You don’t lack volunteers, you lack volunteers with > authority.
I fully agree. I was referring to bug reports in my emails. Code review is an area in which Wikimedia is very frustrating. There are regular emails about patches by new contributors awaiting review [1] but that obviously only covers a small group of contributors. And while we recently started to have code stewardship reviews [2] to fill some gaps in the list of responsible persons and teams [3] per code base, we for example still lack meaningful statistics how big the code review problem is, in general and per team. andre [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-March/091632.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_stewardship_reviews [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
