What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR sprint" at the first weekend of very month?

We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot" bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get involved.

Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on them.

What do you think? Is this something worth trying?

Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if you got more than X PRs merged).

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 18:48:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
> What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR sprint" at the first weekend of very month?
>
> We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot" bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get involved.
>
> Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on them.
>
> What do you think? Is this something worth trying?
>
> Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if you got more than X PRs merged).

I like the idea, but our current deficiency is not contributions, but reviews.  If we do something like this, we'll probably get more PRs in the queue, but they may end up sitting there waiting for a decision through to the next sprint.  I, alone, could easily fill the PR queue with more contributions from my backlog, but that will just take resources away from other PRs waiting for review.

IMO what we need is a way to increase the number of people who have the talent and good judgement to quickly bring PRs to a resolution (merge or close), and to mentor contributors so they can become mentors themselves.  With more review capacity (and velocity) we'd probably get more contributions organically without any additional effort or organization.

Mike

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 18:48:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
> What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR sprint" at the first weekend of very month?
>
> We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot" bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get involved.
>
> Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on them.
>
> What do you think? Is this something worth trying?
>
> Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if you got more than X PRs merged).

I like this idea, but for reviewing/merging items as IMO that needs more focus (of course, we could combine the two).

Again, just my opinion, but a crucial part is coordination between regular committers to get stuff reviewed and merged fast (especially for new contributors participating with PRs). Being on Slack/IRC and being responsive is of course the big one there, as you mentioned. Maybe also creating gitter chats for dmd/druntime/phobos so new contributors have a single point of contact?

Due to a sharply increased workload at my day job I can't be available at most times for such a sprint, but I would participate over a weekend. If I know further in advance, I can commit to being active and available over the whole of the weekend. For this upcoming weekend, probably only Saturday and maybe Sunday night.

Whether anyone else wants to throw their hat in or not, I'll make sure to be online for Saturday at least, and dedicate a good portion of the day to reviewing PRs and trying to push them through.

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 18:48:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
> What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR sprint" at the first weekend of very month?
>
> We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot" bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get involved.
>
> Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on them.
>
> What do you think? Is this something worth trying?
>
> Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if you got more than X PRs merged).

Yeah I think it's worth a try. I would probably emphasize PR reviews but I'd never discourage people from fixing bugs as well.  I'd participate so long as I'm available.