Joonas Niilola <juip...@gentoo.org> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On 11.8.2023 17.07, orbea wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Currently the Gentoo Github PR queue is at 577 open PRs that even >> includes one that has been left open in 2018 and neglected since 2021. > > That's a bit misleading. The PR in question is opened by a Gentoo > developer, and labeled as "do-not-merge". So maybe they lost interest, > or forgot? Ping in the PR if you want to see it finished. But there are > indeed tons of PRs open from 2020. > > >> >> While not trying to be rude before contributing to Gentoo I was involved >> with Slackbuilds.org for Slackware where everything gets reviewed once >> a week with only a handful of maintainers doing the reviewing process. > > We also have 32,000 PRs closed, while slackbuild is at 3000. And here > also only handful of members are putting effort in general PR review. So > I'd say we're doing pretty good in that regard. > juippis' whole email nails the issue, but I'd just like to add that there's kind of a baseline at ~400/~450 or so where everything below that is PRs for new packages or long-obsolete stuff nobody closed yet, or where we're waiting on the submitter. It's just that going ahead and going over those is time-consuming and means we're spending less time on active PRs which need looking at. as for bz: it's far harder to review something on bz and if everyone did that for their contributions, any backlog (which you can't easily measure on bz either) would be far larger. > [...]
