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

[Julien Cabieces]

Hi Nyall, 

We (at Oslandia) heard your call for more volunteers in reviewing the backports and PRs.

We are very well aware that our contribution effort for this task is not enough. I see mainly two reasons: 
- Lack of time and human ressources to fullfill this task. This is a bad reason, and a well known situation that we need to take care of internally, to free our schedule.
- A very partial knowledge of the code base in which we feel relevant to review. I try myself to review all Oracle related PRs, or take a look in some part of the code I know enough to make a good review, but it's very little compared to the QGIS code base. 

I hesitated answering your first email, saying basically that we will try to improve the situation, but it would have been just a promise, and I'm not sure that we would have been able to keep it, regarding the points I described above.

Kind regard, 
Julien

> 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
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