My experience is that the better contributions come from people who need to get work done, which is usually best exemplified through bug fix PRs.
If I were to manage incoming PRs for a hackathon event, I would not want to do so without a solid set of Jiras for new features and bugs, otherwise there is zero focus, and what comes in is going to be random. I have Digital Ocean Hacktoberfest T-shirt and I love it but that should not be the sole motivator IMO. I really see a grooming of Jiras as a key to success and a prequestite to opening up a project to a hackathon. Unless of course, you are happy to wade through spammy PRs. Gary On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, 11:43 Markus KARG <mar...@headcrashing.eu> wrote: > You are right that, but this is a tricky situation: > > * We need more committers to accept more PRs. > * We need to accept more PRs to encourage contributors to contribute more > often. > * Contributions need to contribute accepted PRs more often to become > committer. > > So the sole possible solutions are: > > * Contributors become committers without frequently accepted PRs (rather > bad idea) > * Committers accept PRs more frequenlty (the sole left over solution) > > Maybe I missed something, but I do not see any other solution the get at > speed. > > -Markus > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:rfscho...@apache.org] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 16:11 > An: dev@maven.apache.org > Betreff: Re: AW: Hacktoberfest > > As you know, the truth right now it is impossible to keep up. The amount > of mails and PRs waiting for responses exceeds our capacity. > So it is a matter of prioritizing, and yes, that could mean that PRs will > stay unanswered. > IF we would also join hacktober, we must change those priorities for a > month and focus on that, maybe even using the time to respond the open PRs. > > thanks, > Robert > > On 4-10-2020 13:36:52, Markus KARG <mar...@headcrashing.eu> wrote: > Robert, > > in fact I think it would be an even better signal to new contributors is > at least 5 committers would agree to pick up PRs for a whole year. > > -Markus > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:rfscho...@apache.org] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 10:55 > An: Maarten Mulders; dev@maven.apache.org > Betreff: Re: Hacktoberfest > > I think the hacktober is a good initiative. > Just be aware that we need to respond to these PRs ASAP, otherwise it > might work against us. > We already have a huge amount of PRs that still need to be reviewed, so it > is not like we don't have enough PRs. > > I think we need at least 5 committers that explicitly say the will pick up > these PR with the highest priority for 1 month. > Otherwise I'd say no. > > Robert > > > On 3-10-2020 20:41:04, Maarten Mulders wrote: > Hi all, > > Today, I came across this update [1] from DigitalOcean, one of the > companies behind Hacktoberfest. TL;DR: to prevent "spam pull requests", > only accepted/merged/approved pull requests against GitHub repositories > labelled "hacktoberfest" qualify for the free t-shirt or planting a > tree. This is other than previous years, where _every_ pull request > would qualify, even if the repository owner did not explicitly > participate in Hacktoberfest. > > I would argue it makes sense to opt-in Maven repositories for > Hacktoberfest. If it could encourage people to start contributing to > Maven, I think that would be useful. It might also bring Maven to the > attention of people who are looking for (Java) projects to contribute to. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Maarten > > > > [1] https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
