Well, see, I worry that the "any committer can do this" rules are what has led to the current bottleneck. If anybody can do it, then it easily becomes Somebody Else's Problem. Surely someone having greater knowledge of <subject of the changes> than I will have something to say....
My point here is that anyone may be able to do X, but we still need for some specific someone to choose to do it. Just a little more structure might help. We need a way to bump along requests which elicit no strong opinions. If a pull request has sat without substantial objection for a week or two, I think it should be explicitly accepted for the requestor to hop onto dspace-devel and call for a vote. I doubt that anyone would have objected if this had happened in the past, but it hasn't become part of The Way It's Done. As in: "if you feel that your request is languishing without being blocked by any specific issues, *please* call for a vote." Could we stand one more periodic report, on aging pull requests? Would it help? Or perhaps the week's IRC moderator could open the meeting with a *brief* notice: five pull requests inactive for the last week, up two from last week. Github probably has some way to support the data gathering. For my part, I need to be less timid about diving into places in DSpace where I have a lot to learn, in the hope of being able to give a useful review of something outside my usual areas of interest. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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