On 01/11/13 08:35, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 11:49 -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
Another idea that Tom suggested is to use gerrit automation to send back
to first time committers something in addition to the normal 'your patch
is waiting for review' message. The message could be something like:
thank you for your first contribution to OpenStack. Your patch will
now be tested automatically by OpenStack testing frameworks and once
the automatic tests pass, it will be reviewed by other friendly
developers. They will give you comments and may require you to refine
it.
Nobody gets his patch approved at first try so don't be concerned
when someone will require you to do more iterations.
Patches usually take 3 to 7 days to be approved so be patient and be
available on IRC to ask and answer questions about your work. The
more you participate in the community the more rewarding it is for
you. You may also notice that the more you get to know people and get
to be known, the faster your patches will be reviewed and eventually
approved. Get to know others and be known by doing code reviews:
anybody can and should do it.
...
Very nicely done. I really like it.
Cool to see this happening :)
Another idea I had was to encourage new-ish people to engage in the
review process. For example if #patches > N and #reviews < M, post a
message. This might be getting too complicated though :)
Regards,
Tom
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