Clean up state on patchwork
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 18:07:00 GMT 2015
On 09/28/2015 01:53 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> So given the present situation of not enough reviewers, how do we prevent
>> the NEW queue from growing unbounded?
>
> We need to get more reviewers (and more people doing other things such as
> bug fixing, but lack of review, and maybe of help fixing up patches from
> less experienced contributors, is the present discussion), and to do
> better at getting existing reviewers' attention on patches for which their
> expertise is relevant (the latter being what clean patchwork state should
> better be able to help with). Anything involving removing patches from
> NEW without an actual human identification of a problem with the patch or
> of something blocking it is just hiding the problem, not fixing it.
I like that rationale. I see what you're getting at.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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