mini-patch-pilot?

[Martin Pool]

Robert pointed out the other day that the Patch Pilot role may look
intimidating large.  It certainly dominated my week when I did it.  We
get so many patches recently that reviewing them all would be a very
large job if one person tried to do it all themselves.

I think helping incoming patches, not just by reviewing them but by
helping write bits that are hard or whatever is immensely valuable and
appreciated.  I'm glad that some Canonical staff can put some
dedicated time into it; I'm sure this pays off by growing our
community.

However I don't want people to feel that only staff should do reviews
or help with patch piloting.  To me there are two levels:

1- as a project we really try to help people make changes, including
by prompt reviews, helping them write tests, prodding things that
seemed stalled, or whatever it takes
1a- as one part of that, Canonical commits x hours per week of staff time

People are very welcome to do #1 for just one hour one-off or even ten minutes.

If you feel this needs to be communicated better and you have an idea
how, reply (or just do it!)

... this reminds me that we have a huge queue and I do hope this
afternoon to actually dive into it...

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>