Speaking of that, why not institute a "program committee"
where people volunteer to do reviews before your Sage days?
I do a lot of program committee work, which is painful but
is a professional "giving back to the community" task. It
is always done against a deadline which is a great motivation.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Cremona wrote:
> I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage
> to make small (initially) patches on their very own ticket, so that
> they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and then merged.
> But those same people migh
I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage
to make small (initially) patches on their very own ticket, so that
they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and then merged.
But those same people might take quite a while longer before they
feel confident about re
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Robert Miller wrote:
That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they
might not
otherwise feel confident about reviewing.
If I don't feel like reviewing a ticket with high "karma" but I do
care about one with low karma, then I would review zero tic
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Robert Bradshaw
wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Harald Schilly wrote:
>
>> On Apr 14, 6:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby"
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not
>>> otherwise feel confident about reviewing.
>
> T
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Harald Schilly wrote:
On Apr 14, 6:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby"
wrote:
That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they
might not
otherwise feel confident about reviewing.
That's a good point. Fortunately, all the people I've met in the Sage
commu
>> That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not
>> otherwise feel confident about reviewing.
If I don't feel like reviewing a ticket with high "karma" but I do
care about one with low karma, then I would review zero tickets
instead of one, and be irritated that I could
