One more thing: I currently can't assign myself as a reviewer. Do you need to add me to a new JIRA group for that? Or maybe give this capability to all contributors?
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Thanks Neha :) > I'm glad to hear those reviews are useful. > > I created KAFKA-2107 to track the new email script. I agree it will be > helpful and I'm sure someone will pick it up soon :) > > Gwen > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote: > >> To clarify, reviewers don't have to be committers. If as a non-committer >> reviewer, you feel that the patch is ready for commit, feel free to >> ping/tag one of the committers. This >> < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1961?focusedCommentId=14389409&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14389409 >> > >> works :-) >> >> The other suggestion I'd like to make involves writing a simple JIRA >> script >> (whaat?). Currently the weekly email we get from JIRA just tells you what >> JIRAs have patches. But it doesn't tell you which committers/reviewers >> have >> signed up to review those patches. The 2nd piece of information can be >> really helpful. Here's why- >> >> I'm sure everyone wants to know which patches are open and since our >> community is so active, that is often a long list even if each JIRA is >> actively being reviewed. As a busy committer, I think if I knew the list >> of >> JIRAs I've signed up to review and commit, I would really appreciate the >> weekly reminder. It allows me to either get to it or give it up to someone >> else. >> >> If someone had some time, they can look at my patch-review script that >> uses >> some of JIRA's python APIs and write a little script that does this. At >> Confluent, we are happy to host that script on some EC2 machine. >> >> Thanks, >> Neha >> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Jun, >> > >> > Do reviewers have to be committers? >> > I'll be happy to review patches in areas that I'm familiar with, if this >> > makes life easier for committers and helps us get improvements in >> faster. >> > >> > Gwen >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi, everyone, >> > > >> > > Currently, we have accumulated quite a few jira backlogs. We can >> probably >> > > brainstorm a bit what we can do to improve this. A few thoughts. >> > > >> > > 1. There are quite a few jiras marked with "patch available", but with >> > > unaddressed review comments. I made a pass and moved them back to "in >> > > progress" (just click the "Resume Progress") button. Now, there are >> about >> > > 100 jiras with valid patches. As people review the patches, it may be >> > > useful to keep the status updated as well (thanks Neha for the >> > suggestion). >> > > >> > > 2. Some of the jiras have trivial patches. Perhaps we can just assign >> > them >> > > with "trivial" priority. This way, a committer with only limited >> amount >> > of >> > > time may be able to help out. >> > > >> > > 3. Some of the jiras have been tagged with reviewers. It would be >> good if >> > > those reviewers can spend time finishing the reviews. If they can't do >> > the >> > > review soon, they can unset the reviewer field so that someone else >> can >> > > pick up the review. >> > > >> > > 4. Perhaps we can also spend a bit of time to triage at least the >> active >> > > jiras during our weekly hangout. >> > > >> > > Anything else that we can do? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > >> > > Jun >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Neha >> > >