Hi, Thank you David for initiating this discussion. I think it would definitely worth some attention from the community to try to focus a bit more on these problems.
I would be happy to participate in the calls, and help out with reviewing/merging PRs. Best, Ferenc On Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 at 19:24, Jim Hughes <jhug...@confluent.io.INVALID> wrote: > > > Hi David, Tom, > > Regarding bots, I've seen that there is some JIRA bot which moves priority > down over time. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12173 as > an example. > > I recently hit an issue where a new-to-Flink contributor had filed a ticket > and put up a PR around six months ago and no one had looked at it. Given > that it was related to / blocking something I was trying to achieve, I was > able to get some help from a Flink committer to get the PR reviewed and > merged. > > Given that we may have other situations like that, I'd encourage us to > spend some time reviewing the existing "recent" PRs so that a new > contributor's first message on a PR / JIRA isn't from a bot asking if their > issue still exists. > > There are 95 PRs which have been updated since October 1st and only another > 137 or so updated between May 1st and October 1. Manually triaging some > amount of the open PRs would also give us a way to build up the process of > handling new PRs as they are opened. > > Cheers, > > Jim > > 1. > https://github.com/apache/flink/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+updated%3A>2024-10-01 > 2. > https://github.com/apache/flink/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+updated%3A>2024-05-01+ > or > https://github.com/apache/flink/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+updated%3A2024-05-01..2024-10-01 > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 12:26 PM David Radley david_rad...@uk.ibm.com > > wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > Welcome 😊 > > > > Does anyone in the community know if we have considered running bots as > > Tom suggests, > > Kind regards, David.
