You are right that, but this is a tricky situation: * We need more committers to accept more PRs. * We need to accept more PRs to encourage contributors to contribute more often. * Contributions need to contribute accepted PRs more often to become committer.
So the sole possible solutions are: * Contributors become committers without frequently accepted PRs (rather bad idea) * Committers accept PRs more frequenlty (the sole left over solution) Maybe I missed something, but I do not see any other solution the get at speed. -Markus -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 16:11 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: Hacktoberfest As you know, the truth right now it is impossible to keep up. The amount of mails and PRs waiting for responses exceeds our capacity. So it is a matter of prioritizing, and yes, that could mean that PRs will stay unanswered. IF we would also join hacktober, we must change those priorities for a month and focus on that, maybe even using the time to respond the open PRs. thanks, Robert On 4-10-2020 13:36:52, Markus KARG <[email protected]> wrote: Robert, in fact I think it would be an even better signal to new contributors is at least 5 committers would agree to pick up PRs for a whole year. -Markus -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 10:55 An: Maarten Mulders; [email protected] Betreff: Re: Hacktoberfest I think the hacktober is a good initiative. Just be aware that we need to respond to these PRs ASAP, otherwise it might work against us. We already have a huge amount of PRs that still need to be reviewed, so it is not like we don't have enough PRs. I think we need at least 5 committers that explicitly say the will pick up these PR with the highest priority for 1 month. Otherwise I'd say no. Robert On 3-10-2020 20:41:04, Maarten Mulders wrote: Hi all, Today, I came across this update [1] from DigitalOcean, one of the companies behind Hacktoberfest. TL;DR: to prevent "spam pull requests", only accepted/merged/approved pull requests against GitHub repositories labelled "hacktoberfest" qualify for the free t-shirt or planting a tree. This is other than previous years, where _every_ pull request would qualify, even if the repository owner did not explicitly participate in Hacktoberfest. I would argue it makes sense to opt-in Maven repositories for Hacktoberfest. If it could encourage people to start contributing to Maven, I think that would be useful. It might also bring Maven to the attention of people who are looking for (Java) projects to contribute to. Any thoughts? Thanks, Maarten [1] https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
