@ghassan Thank you for raising that issue - the time it takes to get reviews on PRs has long been a core issue of the Open edX project, and there are several initiatives that aim to solve it. Aside from the core contributor program itself, which increases the pool of reviewers (and aims to reduce t…

[image] Contributors Meetup Async Update - May 16th, 2023 - May 30th, 2023 I hope eventually there would be a mechanism where PR author would expect a reviewer to review it at X time… (Ghassan Maslamani) Thank you for raising this issue @ghassan ! It’s a totally reasonable expectation of the C…

[image] jill: …with merge rights on that repository. :+1: And for repos that don’t have CC’s assigned, it can be an opportunity to find and fill that gap. Imho, if nobody with rights on a specific repo is available to review, other code core contributors should be able to review and give a :…

[image] antoviaque: One thing that we have discussed in the past was to have a proper fallback in these cases - the review first goes to the assigned maintainer or team that manages a repository, but if it doesn’t happen within a reasonable timeframe (2 weeks?), then it could be reassigned to an…

I agree, but we’d need to make the following much more clear… I have hundreds of PRs that I comb through every few weeks and it’s very time consuming. Making sure every two weeks that maintainers have responded to specific ones might be a bit of a challenge to keep track of, especially since we’r…

I’m moving this topic to a dedicated thread, as the discussion is getting longer, and this is an important topic. Some of what has been mentioned, to also help with the current situation, we should: Provide better information about the current situation on the different repos, since that can be …

[image] Michelle_Philbrick: [image] itsjeyd: [image] antoviaque: One thing that we have discussed in the past was to have a proper fallback in these cases - the review first goes to the assigned maintainer or team that manages a repository, but if it doesn’t happen within a reasonable ti…

[image] antoviaque: 2 weeks is already a long time for getting a PR review, in an open source project. Most projects I contribute to take a month or more - a recent PR merged after 11 months. Anyway, this thread is really long (and goes in a bunch of directions), so I’m having trouble figuri…

[image] Michelle_Philbrick: We’d need to figure out a cadence for getting stalled PRs to the CCs. Maybe every few weeks Tim and I could post stalled ones in the CC slack channel and have people self-assign? I wonder if the email list is better, so people can better look async? Things in Slac…

Hey all, just an apology that I don’t have time to read and absorb the thread, but wanted to note a few things: For repos without a named maintainer that originated from 2U, Ned and I are working with @Michelle_Philbrick and @itsjeyd to facilitate reviews. Sometimes we do request a CC or community…

From our last Contributors Meetup there were two ideas that I’d like to write here so that they can be discussed further. First is the something that could be considered a lightweight core contributor role. Currently we have core-contributors in the code contributor role and we have people in the c…

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