Re: Proposal to introduce test suite curators

> On Mar 4, 2017, at 04:05, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> 
> On Friday 2017-03-03 11:06 +0900, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>> Note that this is separate from the (poorly named) OWNERS file used in the web-platform-test repo, which is merely a notification mechanism, with no implied responsibility.
> 
> I think having a notification mechanism is likely to solve a
> significant part of the problem.  A number of the pull requests
> sitting around in csswg-test for a long time were sitting there
> because the obvious reviewers simply didn't know about them.
> 
> I think we should first try the solution that involves computers
> doing things (sending and storing notifications), before we decide
> that it doesn't work and move on to more human-intensive solutions.

On the one hand, I would very much welcome a notification mechanism,
and I think the wpt system that we're about to adopt does provide one,
so that's great.

On the other hand, I just had a quick look at all the open pull requests (other than those marked as stale:awaiting-submitter-response), and 16 out of 20 have the spec editors or some other relevant individuals manually CCed/@mentioned/ask for review. Some times pinged multiple times.

Maybe the wrong people got notified, but so far it seems that notifying people
is not sufficient to solve the problem.

—Florian

Received on Monday, 6 March 2017 01:28:41 UTC