Clearing the queues

news · November 29, 2012

Hello everybody,

I'd like to lobby for a change on how we look at code reviews. The

introduction of the patch pilots was great and again I'd like to thank

the Bazaar team for planting the seeds for this. We have reviewers in

#ubuntu-devel who can take questions from contributors and we are more

active in terms of guiding fixes to being ready to land.

Still we can't seem to get the queue under control. We are up at 91

requests right now. For the remainder of the week and next one I want us

to get down to 0. How we are going to do this? By all helping out. If

you work for Canonical or not, if you have upload rights for a specific

package or not, please help out. There are so many requests in the queue

which can be easily dealt with and everyone with upload rights should

know, how to reject a request or help forward it upstream if that's more

appropriate. You all know how to find somebody who can help make a final

decision on a request.

Of course some of you might wonder "Why should I care?". It's simple:

others did code reviews for you too. You all understand that code

reviews are the primary way how we teach about conventions, how we build

our web of trust and get new contributors to help out with Ubuntu more

actively. Try to see every minute you spend on sponsoring as an action

which multiplies. Even in cases where it doesn't do achieve that, you

make the world a better place.

I'd love to hear opinions and ideas to improve things, but I'd love us

to get down to 0 and have alarm bells going off whenever we cross a

threshold of 25. We can do this, if everybody helps.

Have a great day,

Daniel

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