Where to see the list of merges/uploads that need review?

[James Westby]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:06 -0500, Elliot Murphy <elliot at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm feeling worried and mildly demotivated that my merge proposal has
> been sitting here for 10 days:
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~statik/ubuntu/lucid/protobuf/merge-bug502654/+merge/17571

Firstly, sorry about the delays. I have not been around to help with
sponsorship, and not too many people are currently looking at sponsoring
from merge proposals.

> Today I thought, how can I take my energy worrying about whether my
> contribution is going to be ignored, and do something useful instead?
> So I tried to find out how many other merge proposals were pending and
> have no reviews yet, to see if I could do something useful by
> reviewing contributions from other people who are in the same boat.
> And then I realized I can't find anything like the +activereviews
> pages I use so often with Launchpad when working on upstream projects.

I've been bugging the LP developers about this at every opportunity for
the past few weeks, it's a rather large hole currently.

The links posted are the best we have right now, but they are not API
accessible, so it's not easy to fold it in to Daniel's page.

Tim said that he would be looking at this soon for us.

> Before starting to use ubuntu-distributed-development, I would have
> filed a bug, attached some sort of debdiff, and subscribed the
> appropriate -sponsors team, but I thought merge proposals were the hot
> new way to do things. The first time, I tried to find someone directly
> to review my merge and that worked ok - my first udd merge was for
> erlang, and I saw pitti had touched it last so I just asked him
> directly, and he uploaded right away. But that doesn't seem scalable
> or efficient compared to having a pool of things that need reviewing.

I want to get to a similar system as is used by upstream projects on LP,
that I am sure you are familiar with, but LP doesn't currently provide
us with a way to do it, or to build it on top (except for
screen-scraping.)

Thanks,

James