On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> It may sounds appealing to clean the plate and "resolve" a lot of
> tickets. However, think about it from the other side: somebody is
> waiting for review for years, then a ping will come, and if he
> responds, then ... nothing. Just "yeah, we are not going to close
> this". That is not very welcome. :(
But if somebody is waiting for review for years, they (we?) are doing
something wrong. Even is a review is waiting for a few weeks, people
should ask on fedora-devel, or propose review swaps, or whatever. Just
keeping tickets forever doesn't seem like a good option either.
Well it is quite clear we are doing something wrong and have been for as long as the project has been going on. Normally we seem to get some point where some people say 'gee this is awful' and then do some sort of herculean backlog cleanup or close-out but in the end we just don't have a lot of people who have time to do the level of reviews needed anymore than we have the people to do the package maintenance or a billion other things which have piled up.
Package reviews are like dirty dishes and laundry to a lot of people and there are always something they would rather do or HAVE to than do it. Until someone removes the Somebody Else's Problem Field from it.. reviews will pile up.
Zbyszek
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