Hello David, I believe this is a valuable initiative that will significantly enhance the codebase as well. I would also like to join this group and contribute to the community.
Regards, Anu K T On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:36 PM David Radley <david_rad...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have been looking at the Flink Jira and git. I see a large number of > Flink Jira issues that are open and critical or blockers > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-36655?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical) > I realise some of these issues may not actually be critical as they have > been labelled by the submitter. > > I see 1239 open unmerged PRs > https://github.com/apache/flink/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen. Some of these > are not associated with assigned issues, so may never be merged. This > amount of unmerged PRs, means that many people have put a lot of time and > effort into creating code that has not made it into the codebase, so they > do not get the credit for the contribution, which must be disheartening and > the codebase does not get the benefit of the contribution. > > This is a large amount of technical debt. I would like to help address > this problem by setting up a workgroup, with others in the community who > would like this addressed. The scope of the workgroup would be to improve > these numbers by activities such as: > > * Triaging PRs so it is easier for committers to merge or close them. > * Identifying prs that could be closed out as no longer relevant. > * Getting committer buy in. > > Are there other ideas from the community around how this could be improved > with or without a workgroup, or whether the existing processes should be > sufficient or enhanced? > > Is there an appetite to address this in the community? I am happy to drive > this as a community workgroup, with my team in IBM, if there is community > support. > > We could call the community workgroup ?Community Health Initiative? CHI to > energise the Flink community. > > WDYT? > > Kind regards, David. > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 > Registered office: Building C, IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road, > Winchester, Hampshire SO21 2JN >
