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What's a reasonable time frame to expect a response to a pull request from a Backdrop committer? #122

Closed matt2000 closed 10 years ago

matt2000 commented 10 years ago

How do we keep things moving without being annoying or pushy? ;-)

quicksketch commented 10 years ago

Haha, well considering it's only me at the moment (not a situation we want to perpetuate), I think it will vary. I'd say that for starters we should expect the same amount of involvement as a well-maintained contrib module on drupal.org. Sometimes you get a response within hours, other times it takes a few weeks. It depends on the complexity of the issue and availability of the maintainers. As time goes on, we hope to have maintainers for each subsystem, so that could help with the speed of responses.

DirectorHaas commented 10 years ago

Wondering if a higher profile KickStarter campaign would help raise more money? T-shirts and all that stuff are popular incentives. :) http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/open%20software/successful?ref=more

matt2000 commented 10 years ago

What would be needed is more specific promises about what will be done; e.g., a specific release date, or a specific commitment from particular developers to work on the project like a job for a minimum of X hours per week and to guarantee inclusion of specific features... which is hard to do, of course.

That, or t-shirts. People want to know what they're getting for their money on Kickstarter; its not a donation platform, really.

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DirectorHaas commented 10 years ago

Yeah, it's always about quid pro quo to get the ducats.

jenlampton commented 10 years ago

We looked at Kickstarter before we started our Indiegogo campaign (now ended) and decided it wasn't quite the right fit for Backdrop. What we need now (even more than we need money) is more developers, more committers, and more PMC members. Perhaps we should open a new issue as a call for interest? (see https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/124)

To answer the question though, I think ideally a committer should respond to each new pull request in less than two weeks. That should be manageable long-term if we can get enough committers. Short term, we may not be able to promise that. We have a lot of issues to get through to keep up with D8, not to mention a lot of other cleanup to do.

quicksketch commented 10 years ago

If there's more to be said here, please reopen, for now I think we've answered the question as best as possible.