On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 18:27 +0000, Jon Robson wrote:
Thanks for these e-mails.
Glad to hear that! :)
Would you be also open to flagging some of our oldest
patches as part of
this mail (I think you are right to keep the number of patches low - a long
list can be overwhelming)?
I just ran a Gerrit query and found these old patches that had no merge
conflicts. I'd love to get us to a point where at least core's patchsets
are weeks old rather than months. It seems these e-mails could be a good
mechanism for reaching the right people.
I do share the sentiment; still "old patches" are a very different beast.
The current email focuses on fresh contributors still "available" (even
if it was a one-time drive-by contribution), in combination with ideas
like
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73357 (Gerrit Welcome Bot).
So I'd be open but I currently don't think it's the best use of (my)
time, also as I am not sure how to easily gather that list & which
criteria to apply. Plus it should likely be a separate email.
We currently list "Oldest open Gerrit changesets without code review"
on
http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/scr-backlog.html [1].
But that page does not exclude "Cannot merge / needs rebase" items.
List of open MediaWiki Core patches without any code review:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:%5Emediawiki/core+AN…
Cheers,
andre
[1] (that
korma.wmflabs.org page is to be replaced by
https://wikimedia.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Gerrit-Backlog
at some point in the future. All still very beta.)
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/