Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Recommendations to facilitation patch reviews on forgejo/ML?

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Romain Beauxis (HE12025-08-02):
> Casual contributors eventually become knowledgeable about the
> framework/code base which eventually leads to some of them becoming
> seasoned developers and reviewers.
> 
> If you want to grow the number of people working with the project, you've
> got to be able to open the funnel and welcome new contributors.

It does not work like that. The issue is not the total number of people
working on the project but the ratio of senior members capable of
reviewing patches over patch submissions.

By opening “the funnel” wider, you might attract more people
contributing patches, but these people will not become capable of
reviewing patches.

Somebody who has what it takes to become a reviewer does not need the
funnel to be widened for them.

> That being said, I understand that these tools are making your work more
> difficult and how this potentially reduces again the ability for people to
> get reviews.

Precisely.

> On a personal level, I can attest, regardless of the tools being used, it
> is currently incredibly hard to get feedback on your contributions.

And it will become worse, because your good contributions will be
drowned in crappy contributions by people who just needed to click on
“login with github” and “create a pull request” without even reading our
guidelines.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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