Re: Unreviewed patches - is the boat sinking?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:48 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 09:34 +0200, Joanna Larsen wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm new to Gnome. Some time ago I started looking into the inner
> > workings of it. Reading the source code, learning from it. Coming up
> > with a few ideas. So I jumped on Bugzilla eager to fix bugs and
> > contribute features.
> >
> > Until I found this [1]. No it's not the list of open bug reports, it's
> > the list of unreviewed patches. As of now that's 6138 in total.
> >
> > Hundreds or thousands of people have taken the time to create a patch,
> > submit it and then heard absolutely nothing back.
>
> Hmm, have you actually checked that? How do you know that this is the
> case. For example:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724299
> contains 19 patches, all of which will get reviewed after we've branched
> from GNOME 3.12.
>
> The majority of patches against Totem were submitted by me:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=patchreport.html&product=totem&patch-status=none
> Parked and waiting for branching as well.
>
> And your list of patches mention plenty of obsolete modules.

I'll also point to the section about patch reviews this bugzilla report
for the beginning of 2014:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html&days=103&reviewers=15

I counted more than 2200 patches reviewed!

Cheers