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%C2%A0(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%C2%A0%5B1]. 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+AND...
Cheers, andre
[1] (that korma.wmflabs.org page is to be replaced by https://wikimedia.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Gerrit-Backlog%C2%A0 at some point in the future. All still very beta.)