Tipping the apple cart?

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Please lets keep in mind that this is not a thread to complain about
Gitlab. No platform is perfect, and we're not yet on production machines.

This thread is about how to make our review process great for both newbies
and experienced developers, *and reviewers* - on Gitlab.

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman <
valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our
> code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get
> missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated
> reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the
> reviewers by hand, and would like to not do that any more.
>
> However, many developers simply route all Phab emails to folders where
> they sit unread, because Phab sends out an email for every event and
> comment! This is far too spammy. In our move to Gitlab, we can do better.
> Right now, the devel email lists get these emails -- but it is assumed that
> they are often not read, because of the number of patches sitting
> unreviewed, and unused. This is bad for our community, and very
> discouraging to newcomers. One of our best recent initiatives has been the
> improve our onboarding process, and this needs to be part of it.
>
> Improving the workflow on Phabricator is almost pointless, since we're
> leaving it. However, please give your ideas, thoughts and even opinions on
> how best to improve this in Gitlab. I think if we engineer this well, we
> can get more newbie contributors and more new *reviewers.*
>
> I'm ok with starting Yet Another discussion which threatens to tip the
> apple cart, because right now, the apples are already on the ground,
> rotting.
>
> Valorie
>
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