[Reviewers] Good video about code review etc

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Thu Oct 26 00:07:14 UTC 2017


> On Oct 25, 2017, at 20:06, Kevin Bullock <kbullock at ringworld.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 25, 2017, at 17:02, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From PyCon this year: <https://youtu.be/iNG1a--SIlk <https://youtu.be/iNG1a--SIlk>>
>> 
>> Probably nothing earth-shattering to any of us, but it's still worth a listen at some point. He's got some good comments around 35-40 minutes about getting new contributors on board, with a graduated difficulty scale, roughly:
>> 
>> First time contributor -> I'll add tests, fix your code, etc.
>> Second time contributor -> Now the contributor gets asked to fix anything they broke, but still might add tests.
>> Third time -> Now you ask them to add tests, pass all existing checks, etc
>> 
>> We should probably try and do a little better about that as people ramp up? Thoughts? I like this particular arc, as it seems more likely to hook a new contributor.
> 
> Yeah, that seems like a pretty good ramp-up strategy. I think we still direct first-time contributors to patchbomb or Phabricator when they post somewhere else (bz) though.

It might be worth taking trivial patches from bz when they're truly trivial, and give a pointer to the correct forum, as a better onramp.

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