[Qgis-psc] Official PSC call on pull request policies

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Thanks Nyall, thanks Sandro,

Just a quick question, is the
 -is:draft
Filter an option at all? I guess it does not reduce the n/r by default but
could help?

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+-is%3Adraft

Cheers Marco


On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, 23:09 Sandro Santilli via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Thanks Nyall for raising this thread!
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 09:21:05AM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
> > Policy #1: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/56062
> >
> > In short, Sandro proposes that the pull request queue be an open queue
> > of ALL work happening everywhere, in any state of completeness. Pull
> > requests are permitted for semi-complete work, and for long-term
> > (including multi-year) projects which are not yet ready for review or
> > merge. The justification here is that having this work open in the
> > queue makes it widely visible and so that other developers are aware
> > of ongoing work across the community.
>
> I would add that allowing long-term PRs also serves the purpose of making
> it easy for contributors to check the state of their work against CI as
> running tests locally is so hard that I dubt anyone is doing that.
>
> > Policy #2: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/56523
>
> [...]
>
> > When the queue includes work which is not ready for review, then it
> > becomes very tricky to work out the actual status of pull requests and
> > which ones should be focused on during review time.
>
> I think this is a limitation of the software used to get the list
> of pull requests needing focus, and should be threated as such.
> If github makes it hard to filter on "PR state" we could use a label
> to do that.
>
> --strk;
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