Re: gnu-patches back log

[Pjotr Prins]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:42:29AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Wed 01 Mar 2017 09:17, Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I would like to ask the Guix mailing list members whether it is
> > *acceptable* that a good looking patch has not been touched for two
> > weeks. Like this one
> >
> >   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25725
> 
> FWIW -- I accept this situation.  I have limited bandwidth and can't do
> everything and am not always in a very Guixy place.  If I felt that I
> could not accept this, my life would be much worse -- stress, burnout,
> etc.

Last thing we want! And I do appreciate such concerns of every
individual. We do, however, have some 30 people who can push to
savannah:

  https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=guix

and we have another even larger group of people without push rights
who do not mind commenting on peers. Even today we should be able to
distribute the load better. 

I am not asking you in particular, but everyone in general, if you
feel like coaching one submission per week. That would take a load
of work away from Ricardo and Ludo and improve speed dramatically.

This is the first thing I am trying :). The main difference with the
existing approach is that I want to have more engagement from fresh
contributors who can also peer review. Review is an excellent way of
learning. How exactly we are going to do this is not clear yet. But
that is what I am thinking. 

Meanwhile I want to know what limits people actually have. I think 2
weeks is not acceptable (but that should be obvious).

Pj.

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