Patch Pilot report

[John Arbash Meinel]

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> Some raw numbers to put that in perspective: I spent ~14 hours
> the first week and ~24 the second one. These numbers came from
> the hamster time-tracking application in Ubuntu and since I've
> started using it only a couple of weeks ago they may be a bit
> wrong as I can't guarantee I switched tasks as rigorously as I
> should have, so take them with a grain of salt. This time also
> includes reviews for core contributors which are not strictly
> part of the pilot's job IMHO but I was in the mood :) Finally, I
> think I did a pretty poor job about asking other to do reviews
> too :D


To be honest, something doesn't seem right with our process if it takes
50% of a core developers time just to keep up with the review queue. And
even that, as you say, doesn't include reviews done by 3rd parties. (I'm
sure I did a fair amount of reviewing during that time, but I have no
time tracking of it.)

Given that Robert is 'mostly away', and Ian is on vacation, that means
that out of 3 people, we probably spent close to 1 person-week on reviews.

Now it could mean that things were going very-very right, and we just
had a lot of stuff being integrated. And I *do* think that we landed
more stuff this month than previously.

I believe LP has at least 1 full time reviewer. (So 1-3 person-weeks per
week if they do that over the full 24 hours.) (They at least have an
on-call person, I don't know how much actual time is spent.)

Certainly increasing community contributions is a good thing. Especially
if the time spent is beneficial. But a contributor spending 10 min
causes you to spend an hour, then our balance is out of whack. (It
becomes too easy to DOS the patch pilot. :)


Anyway, I think you did a great job, I'm just wondering what we can do
to get reviews flowing smoothly, and still not consuming too much time.

John
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