On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 13:14, Mike Dixon <michael.di...@denovosoftware.com> wrote: >... > And so we have identified one of the problems. > > If you're serious about getting new people involved in development, getting > a patch reviewed needs to be *easy*. If someone sends in a patch and it gets > ignored (not maliciously, of course), it's possible that the submitter is so > dedicated that they'll keep sending emails until someone pays attention. > This certainly does happen sometimes. However, it's much more likely that > they'll just decide that nobody's interested, and leave. > > Every patch that rots is a potential new developer that you've turned away > at the door. If it seems like there's no time to do patch review, think how > much less time there will be if Subversion continues to grow, but no new > developers join.
I strongly agree, and that was the one, primary thing that I raised at our meeting. The attempt to try a "mentor" is a way/attempt to be more active against leaving these developers/patches lying around. Cheers, -g
