On 2015-01-16 19:50, deadalnix wrote:

> It is better to have some kind of bot that comment on the PR after a
> while. Like "hey, this PR is hanging, can someone make thing go forward
> or I'll close in 2 more month". That generate activity on the PR and is
> often a wake up call for people.

Ruby on Rails has something like that for their project. Although there's a huge unfairness if a reviewer never replies. Just because a reviewer doesn't reply doesn't mean the problem (i.e. a bug) goes away. Yes, they're using this for issues.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 11:52:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-16 19:50, deadalnix wrote:
>
>> It is better to have some kind of bot that comment on the PR after a
>> while. Like "hey, this PR is hanging, can someone make thing go forward
>> or I'll close in 2 more month". That generate activity on the PR and is
>> often a wake up call for people.
>
> Ruby on Rails has something like that for their project. Although there's a huge unfairness if a reviewer never replies. Just because a reviewer doesn't reply doesn't mean the problem (i.e. a bug) goes away. Yes, they're using this for issues.

The whole thing would be much easier if github issues were used instead of bugzilla -- for one thing, it would automatically mention it in a pull request (or an issue) if it was mentioned anywhere in another issue / pull request which makes browsing and figuring what relates to what much easier (instead of having to search bugzilla / forum / pull requests here and having three different places to register things at). Just my 2 cents...

> Informative is fine. Basing decisions on metrics unleavened by contextual judgement isn't going to work well.
>
> It isn't just one metric. I've personally seen it multiple times with various metrics, and regularly read in the news about counterproductive results obtained by using metrics absent judgement. The "zero tolerance" policies schools have are a stellar example, where students get punished for chewing a pizza into the shape of a gun.
>

+1.  Dr Iain MacGilchrist at All Souls, Oxford, has written a whole book about the mindset behind mistaking abstracted representations of the world for the world itself.

Would it be worth considering a simple portal where people can vote on pull requests with a comment, and then at least one can see them ranked by what people find important?  This is susceptible to all the usual problems of democracy, but it might be an improvement.


Laeeth