Bugzilla & PR sprint on the first weekend of every month

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 18:48:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
> What do you guys think about having a dedicated "Bugzilla & PR 
> sprint" at the first weekend of very month?
>
> We could organize this a bit by posting the currently "hot" 
> bugs a few days ahead and also make sure that there are plenty 
> of "bootcamp" bugs, s.t. even newcomers can start to get 
> involved.
>
> Even if you aren't too much interested in this effort, being a 
> bit more active on Slack/IRC or responsive on GitHub on this 
> weekend would help, s.t. newcomers interested in squashing D 
> bugs get over the initial hurdles pretty quickly and we can 
> finally resolve the long-stalled PRs and find a consensus on 
> them.
>
> What do you think? Is this something worth trying?
>
> Maybe the DLF could also step in and provide small goodies for 
> all bug hunters of the weekend (e.g. a "D bug hunter" shirt if 
> you got more than X PRs merged).

I like the idea, but our current deficiency is not contributions, 
but reviews.  If we do something like this, we'll probably get 
more PRs in the queue, but they may end up sitting there waiting 
for a decision through to the next sprint.  I, alone, could 
easily fill the PR queue with more contributions from my backlog, 
but that will just take resources away from other PRs waiting for 
review.

IMO what we need is a way to increase the number of people who 
have the talent and good judgement to quickly bring PRs to a 
resolution (merge or close), and to mentor contributors so they 
can become mentors themselves.  With more review capacity (and 
velocity) we'd probably get more contributions organically 
without any additional effort or organization.

Mike