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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