[QGIS-Developer] A plea: more volunteers needed for reviewing backports

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 09:06, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> This is a public plea for more developers who are very familiar with
> different parts of the QGIS codebase to become actively involved in
> backport PR management.
>
> We NEED more people to be actively (i.e. daily) monitoring for
> backport PRs and then reviewing them if the backport affects code
> areas which they're knowledgeable about.
>

Well my earlier plea seems like it fell on deaf ears, and we've seen
only minimal assistance coming to maintain the PR queue since I posted
this.

I'll ask nicely once more. If you're an organisation involved in QGIS
development, you NEED to donate time to maintaining this list. It's
not enough to just ensure your own PRs get through the queue, you HAVE
to help with the shared burden of getting others PRs reviewed and
merged.

This callout applies to ALL organisations who are making money from
core QGIS development. You know who you are, and you can ALL afford to
donate 30 minutes of a staff member's time each week to helping with
this shared burden. If your boss is blocking this then you NEED to let
them know how big a risk they are running here. It's not fair to leave
this responsibility on the already burdened shoulders of a few
overworked individuals.

Nyall