Package review backlog.

[John Poelstra]

Patrice Dumas said the following on 10/11/2008 03:21 AM Pacific Time:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:47:01AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> John Poelstra wrote:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/4kt682
>>> 1,212 open Package Review bugs
>> Of those 1200 pachages awaiting review, 100 block FE_NEEDSPONSOR, so 1100 
>> are normal reviews submitted by people which are already contributers! 
> 
> These numbers are partly misleading. Indeed many are merge reviews that
> are... special, at least should not, in my opinion be counted like
> other reviews since they are already in. And among the other many are in
> progress and blocked by a change required somewhere, upstream, or in
> other package or there is something not obvious in the package that
> needs some work, it is not necessarily a lack of reviewers. In some way
> having many active review bugs may be good if it is because the review
> is serious and allow to have quality packages in only. So, in my opinion
> the raw numbers don't mean a lot, what would be meaningful, would be, in
> my opinion, the ratio of review requests that nobody had a look at over
> the number of fedora contributors.
> 

I queried all open bugs for the "Package Review" component.

They are also a large part of the total of NEW rawhide bugs here: 
http://tinyurl.com/4cavl2

John