Hi, Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please help review them!
There is no single dashboard to show all Merge Requests for all Debian packages, but here are the largest teams listed to show how many they have open (and total count in parentheses): 938 (9657) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/debian/-/merge_requests 91 (3058) at https://salsa.debian.org/groups/go-team/-/merge_requests 78 (2336) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/python-team/-/merge_requests 32 (1686) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/kernel-team/-/merge_requests 84 (1491) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/gnome-team/-/merge_requests 619 (1242) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/java-team/-/merge_requests 93 (980) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/multimedia-team/-/merge_requests 29 (964) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/rust-team/-/merge_requests 15 (882) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/DebianOnMobile-team/-/merge_requests 137 (761) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/installer-team/-/merge_requests 31 (725) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/games-team/-/merge_requests 24 (605) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/Mobian-team/-/merge_requests 15 (444) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/js-team/-/merge_requests 14 (343) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/libvirt-team/-/merge_requests 3 (282) https://salsa.debian.org/groups/med-team/-/merge_requests If you have some spare time for Debian today, please consider collaborating with another maintainer by providing them review/feedback on an open Merge Request. Some of them might be stale for various reasons, but there are for sure many that are genuinely pending review/feedback. You don't need to be a subject-matter expert. Any feedback is surely appreciated by the author. I hope more people do code reviews as I believe it can have these benefits for Debian: - Better social dynamics, fewer lonely maintainers and more collaborative spirit - Better documentation of changes as authors write commit messages thinking about the reviewers who will read them - Higher average quality of changes (assuming Linus' Law) - Hopefully higher quality also via CI results that integrate into the MR review - Faster spread of best practices as more maintainers read code written by multiple people in multiple packages - More opportunities for new contributors to become active in Debian as Merge Requests offer a easily relatable workflow to most software developers I personally feel strongly that code reviews and discussing optimal solutions with other people makes Debian packaging way more fun than simply working solo. - Otto
