On Wed, Dec 25 2019, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> On 2019/12/24 20:08, John Goerzen wrote: > <snip> >> But at the same time, I feel that the project as a whole isn't really >> taking this problem very seriously. > > That is true, probably mostly because many people don't really > understand that there is a problem. The NEW queue waits are tough, but Very good observation. I didn't realize it myself until I had something in NEW, which I haven't had for a very long time. > I think many will agree with you that we should do better in all those > areas, especially the NEW queue, but change is difficult and in itself > takes time. In a commercial setting it would probably be easier to > create incentives to motivate staff to do more review kind of work, but > I suppose in Debian it's seen as somewhat unglamorous work and we don't > have many methods to incentivise contributors. Completely agreed. > In particular I think it's important to support events like bug > squashing parties because it's one of the few things that we can do, and > encourage things like patch reviews, sponsoring and NEW queue reviews at > these events and maybe even thank all the people who participate in > these on a monthly basis in bits from Debian so that maybe this work can > be highlighted more as something that we do value and might encourage > more people to get involved there. That is a fantastic idea. If we could open up these reviews to let more DDs participate, that would be fantastic. No doubt some of the tools at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools could help people with this. John
