Re: [Banshee-List] Report on pending patches Issue 01/2011

[olivier dufour <olivier duff gmail com>]

Hello,

I think this is a small part of an iceberg that we face off.

The main issue is that banshee (as a lot of other open source project) lakes of maintainers.

Aaron have new job and is not anymore full time on banshee.

So Gabriel is the only one who have a full time job on banshee and he can not manage all by himself.

I know that there is other maintainer but they have not enough time to manage all the patch. Everybody have a real life out there which take a lot of time.

So to save time to Gabriel (& other maintainers), I think to 2 things to help on that :

1) include other maintainers smoothly (I see very skilled devs out there: Alex, Alan, ...) who can help Gabriel in the task of reviewing patch and include them on git and common if a developer commit a bad patch we can revert. git is here for that !

2) Create an unstable/lab git fork where we have more commiters which can add patch reviewed by them.

For big refactor (gtk3, gst#, ...) we can have dedicated branch in it. So every body can share code on it.

With a build bot we can provide a build for advance users to test and provide feedback.

After that, main maintainer can cherry pick good commit or revert bad ones. The gitorious banshee community extension (bce) project is great for extensions but we can not share patch on the core on it. 

PS: do not take this mail a critic against management of the project but as a research to help project to have better organisation to avoid a such quantity of patch unreviewed.

If you have other/better ideas to improve organisation, you are welcome.

Olivier Dufour

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:

... This finally motivate me to go through all unreviewed patches,

analyse their current state and compile the following report to help
get those "almost-there" issues to make their final steps.

Wow, that was no small task!  It's great that you put so much effort into it -- hopefully it helps the process along.

 

* This is a controversial patch that needs a maintainer's decision
and/or a last review/commit. (I like it)
[https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608879]
Type ahead activation without requiring '?' key press (Normal / enhancement)
--> [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=162720action=diff]
(348 days) Type ahead activation without requiring '?' key press

I went ahead and marked this one 'needs-work.'  Personally I love the behavior in the patch, but I doubt maintainers will accept it without at least a preference option to use Banshee's regular keyboard shortcuts.  Also, it doesn't seem to apply to master anymore.

Michael

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