Re: CommitFest 2011-01 as of 2011-02-04

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> I have to say that I've always been a bit suprised by the idea that the
> CommitFest is intended to be done and all patches *committed* at the end
> of the month.  It's been working really rather well, which is due in
> great part to the excellent CF managers (thanks again for being that,
> again).  That said, we have quite a few non-committer reviewers who
> provide good feedback and move the patch back to 'waiting for author'
> and that whole process takes a while.

>
> Perhaps a thought for next time would be to offset things a bit.  eg:
>
> CF 2011-03 (or whatever):
> 2011-02-14: Patches should all be submitted
> 2011-02-14: Reviewers start
> 2011-03-01: Committers start w/ 'Ready for Committer' patches
> 2011-03-14: Patches not marked 'Ready for Committer' get bounced
> 2011-03-31: All patches committed
>
> I'm not against the 'waiting on author' approach, but I do feel like if
> we're going to continue to have it, we need to spread it out a bit more.
> I do think this would place more work on the CF manager, unfortunately,
> but I'd hope that they would primairly be focused on managing the
> reviews and not be as busy during the last 2 weeks.  Maybe one day I'll
> be brave enough to offer to manage one and see. :)
>
>        Thanks again, Robert, you've done an excellent job managing the CF.
>
>                Stephen
>
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