Who knows, perhaps we should organize "patch days", in the same way that
we
have organized bug days in the past (which we want to recover now).
that would be cool.
We also want to look at ways promote the oldest inactive requests. For instance, what about directing new volunteers there, asking them to submit their
code
revisions. For a patch that has been waiting in silence for over a year, any feedback will be better than no feedback.
You sure about that? I would imagine that having no one look at your code for months, then having someone who doesnt have the authority to approve it nit pick it a little, followed by another couple months of waiting, to be more frustrating then no feedback at all.
One last detail. Our initial motivation to look at the age of open changesets by affiliation was to check whether submissions from WMF employees and independent developers were treated equally. Interestingly, there are no big differences between these groups.
Interesting, im kind of surprised by this.
I wonder if there is a difference between newbie volunteers and long term volunteers.
-- Bawolff