2022-11-17 Maintainers Meeting notes

Review goals of Phase 2

• Proposed repos to pull in.
  

Modest proposals

• Clean-up of old PRs as pre-work for Phase 2

• Let’s make more use of Draft PRs

  • WIP should always be draft

    • Unless otherwise specified, draft means that no one should take a look yet.

  • Any PRs that are open and useful and older than 100 days should be moved to Draft, others should be closed

    • Depends up what state they really are in:

      • Actually in review, no change

      • Waiting for review, no change

      • Should be Draft, change to Draft

      • Abandoned, Close

      • We need some specific examples of difficult cases – Ed hopes that for officially maintained repos we’ll be in decent shape.

  • Any PR that’s older than 200 days should be closed – even drafts.

    • Authors can always re-open

    • Our text should mention that when we close it.

  • For someone who is managing a draft PR, they are responsible for managing early feedback with the appropriate reviewers.

• PMs can help here making sure that Drafts are appropriately marked.

• We need to be generally disciplined use of labels, states, etc so that we might report consistently.

  • Can we add a bot comment that reviewers can add to a comment that makes the author primarily responsible for the next action.

Review Dashboard

• Purpose is to help maintainers track work across multiple repos

• To highlight performance against SLAs

• To make identifying the most urgent work easy