Hi everybody, One of the main issues that has been raised in the* Attracting new contributors thread *is the time needed before a patch is reviewed. This is true for everybody but specially for newcomers that hesitate to manifest themselves on the dev channel or by pinging people directly.
Part of the issue is a visibility problem and I hope that by providing more visibility to the tickets that are Patch Available we can improve the situation. *Newcomers Patch Available tickets: * We currently have 48 tickets from non-committers that are marked as Patch Available. Brandon has been going through the backlog doing some triaging for more than a week. I joined his effort a bit. Any help is welcome. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15663?jql=project%20%3D%20Cassandra%20AND%20assignee%20not%20in%20membersOf(Committers)%20AND%20assignee%20not%20in%20(brandon.williams%2C%20dikanggu%2C%20urandom%2C%20jay.zhuang%2C%20yifanc%2C%20cnlwsu%2C%20carlyeks%2C%20tjake%2C%20e.dimitrova%2C%20pauloricardomg)%20AND%20status%20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC Currently 30 of those tickets do not have a reviewer: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13834?jql=project%20%3D%20Cassandra%20AND%20assignee%20not%20in%20membersOf(Committers)%20AND%20assignee%20not%20in%20(brandon.williams%2C%20dikanggu%2C%20urandom%2C%20jay.zhuang%2C%20yifanc%2C%20cnlwsu%2C%20carlyeks%2C%20tjake%2C%20e.dimitrova%2C%20pauloricardomg)%20AND%20status%20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22%20%20%20AND%20cf%5B12313420%5D%20is%20EMPTY%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC We also need a second reviewer for CASSANDRA-14325 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14325> (Java executable check succeeds despite no java on PATH) *Committers Patch Available tickets:* We also have 33 tickets from committers that are marked as Patch Available and 17 of those tickets have no reviewers. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16776?jql=project%20%3D%20Cassandra%20AND%20(assignee%20in%20membersOf(Committers)%20OR%20assignee%20in%20(brandon.williams%2C%20dikanggu%2C%20urandom%2C%20jay.zhuang%2C%20yifanc%2C%20cnlwsu%2C%20carlyeks%2C%20tjake%2C%20e.dimitrova%2C%20pauloricardomg))%20AND%20status%20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22%20AND%20cf%5B12313420%5D%20is%20EMPTY%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC As you can see we have a significant amount of Patch Available tickets. Any help to review those tickets is welcome. Thanks in advance for your help.
