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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:19:08 -0500
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting PRs fixed (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)
Message-ID:  <20120119031908.GB95131@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F177914.5090706@missouri.edu>
References:  <20120119005735.218280@gmx.com> <4F177914.5090706@missouri.edu>

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:59:48PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 01/18/2012 06:57 PM, Dieter BSD wrote:
> > Andriy writes:
> >> And dealing with PRs is not always exciting.
> >
> > Neither is brushing your teeth or cleaning the kitchen, but most of us
> > manage to do them at least occasionally. Part of being a grown up.
> >
> > Instead of looking for a stick to hold over developers to get them
> > to fix PRs, let's look for carrots to make fixing PRs more appealing.
> >
> > Idea 1: Fix 'n' PRs, get a tee-shirt, fridge magnet, plush daemon, ...
> >
> > Idea 2: Give it status. Set up a web page with PR fixing stats
> >
> > name/handle..total PRs fixed...fixed in last 12 months...average fixed/=
year
> > Sheldon......150...............90........................72
> > Leonard......131..............110........................67
> > Howard.......104...............20........................52
> > Raj...........80...............80........................80
>=20
> You should get extra points for difficult PR's.  One way to measure this=
=20
> would be to give more points for fixing older PR's than newer PR's.

Number of points =3D number of days or weeks that a PR has been in the syst=
em before triage ?

I would think this would put some emphasis on either triaging old PRs befor=
e new ones or actually postponing and assigning a status that cannot accumu=
late a higher amount of points.

--=20
;s =3D;

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