Just to be clear, I welcome Josh's help with project management.

Dinesh

> On Jan 10, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Dinesh Joshi <djo...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> My 2¢.
> 
> We need more folks reviewing tickets and providing feedback and testing the 
> submitted patches. There are many low complexity patches out there that are 
> in need of reviews. Any help in that direction is appreciated. Even if they 
> aren't familiar with the part of codebase, a first review gives them the 
> opportunity to learn. Obviously a committer who is familiar with that part of 
> the codebase can do a second review and commit it.
> 
> Dinesh
> 
>> On Jan 10, 2020, at 11:23 AM, David Capwell <dcapw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I also find that assigning tickets to people when they have no bandwidth to
>> implement them is counterproductive.
>> 
>> 
>> Isn’t this the point of project management; to avoid this issue?
>> 
>> Lets say there are 10 blocking tickets for 4.0, and they are all on you; a
>> PM could help by finding others who could help out and make sure that no
>> one steps on each other.
>> 
>> At the same time, PMs help give visibility into how much work is left and
>> are previous time estimates off (we expect M2 done January, are we close?
>> Do we need to punt things to M3? Do we need to load balance to make this
>> date?, etc.).
>> 
>> I don't think anything is currently languishing because nobody realises it
>> needs to be done, but if you can get things magically moving faster, I will
>> of course be thrilled! __
>> 
>> 
>> So lets try and see what happens! =D
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:12 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> One thing I'd love to see
>>>> again is a regular (every two weeks?) update on progress on the dev list
>>>> (similar to what Jeff Jirsa used to send around -- it also included a
>>> call
>>>> for reviews iirc).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, I also miss those fortnightly (or monthly) summaries that Jeff used
>>> to do. They were very useful "glue" in the community. I imagine they'd also
>>> make writing the board report easier.
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