On Aug 7, 2016 12:16 PM, "Tobias Schönberg" <tobias47n9e@gmail.com> wrote:
> It really seems like WMF should have a full time employee for Pywikibot (or if they already do, maybe another one).

Yes, agreed.

>> 1- Pywikibot has the biggest number of open patchsets after mediawiki/core. You might say, it's okay. Pywikibot is completely volunteer-based but ratio of distinct users / open patchsets is horrifyingly high.

As someone who's submitted a few patches, I didn't experience *awful* delays, but looking at the open patchsets, I have to agree that the backlog is disturbingly large.

I think a possible solution is empowering more people to review patch sets. Making a review guide would help a lot; publicizing the style guide would help as well.