Posted by Jonathan Peterson on June 9, 2011 at 7:26pm
I'm new to the group and just poking my way around, hoping to contribute a little for a variety of reasons.
In searching the queue for a project application to review, I find several that appear to have been abandoned for one reason for another. What happens to these zombies?
- If a project is in needs work and the submitter does nothing for six, seven, eight weeks... does it just stay in limbo or what?
- If it's stuck in needs review, and the reviewer doesn't respond for six, seven, eight weeks... what happens? Can someone else (me, say) just jump in and try to finish? Is there any particular group etiquette I should be aware of?
I've read http://drupal.org/node/532400 but it's silent on what happens when nothing happens.
Comments
Good questions
I haven't seen any previous discussion of the "needs work" side, but I suggest we do something similar to the abandoned project process for that. Specifically, on anything older than, say, 10 weeks, we use the applicant's contact for to notify them that the application is awaiting a response from them (which they may not realize), leave a comment in the application saying we did that, and then give them 2 weeks longer before we close it.
On the needs review side, I haven't seen anyone suggest having multiple people looking at an application is a bad thing. It may not be the most efficient use of our time, since we're likely duplicating some effort, but it won't hurt anything, and may even help catch something an individual would miss. So yes, jumping in after 6 weeks (or even 6 minutes) is totally fine. That does introduce potential for reviewers to disagree. I've found it's good to ask a third party, e.g. anyone in #drupal-codereview on IRC, to make a decision on such disagreements.
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With the applications in the "needs review" status it's quite easy: when the application gets reviewed, the status will pass to "needs work" or "reviewed and tested."
With the applications that have been in the "needs work" status, it seem that closing them when the OP didn't answer after X weeks is the solution.