Open Stack

On 01/11/13 08:35, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 11:49 -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
>
>> Another idea that Tom suggested is to use gerrit automation to send back
>> to first time committers something in addition to the normal 'your patch
>> is waiting for review' message. The message could be something like:
>>
>>> thank you for your first contribution to OpenStack. Your patch will
>>> now be tested automatically by OpenStack testing frameworks and once
>>> the automatic tests pass, it will be reviewed by other friendly
>>> developers. They will give you comments and may require you to refine
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Nobody gets his patch approved at first try so don't be concerned
>>> when someone will require you to do more iterations.
>>>
>>> Patches usually take 3 to 7 days to be approved so be patient and be
>>> available on IRC to ask and answer questions about your work. The
>>> more you participate in the community the more rewarding it is for
>>> you. You may also notice that the more you get to know people and get
>>> to be known, the faster your patches will be reviewed and eventually
>>> approved. Get to know others and be known by doing code reviews:
>>> anybody can and should do it.
> ...
>
> Very nicely done. I really like it.
>

Cool to see this happening :)

Another idea I had was to encourage new-ish people to engage in the 
review process. For example if #patches > N and #reviews < M, post a 
message. This might be getting too complicated though :)


Regards,


Tom