Re: Fedora review day revived?

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Trond Danielsen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> with the growing number of contributors to Fedora, a challenge for new
> contributors who want to get involved is finding reviewers and
> sponsors for their packages. A quick look at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FE-NEW&hide_resolved=1 
>
> tells me that there are many packages waiting to get into Fedora.
> Somehow I think we should find a way to more quickly push packages
> through the review prosess, and otherwise close the bug if it can't be
> finished within a reasonable amount of time.
>
> I found this on the wiki:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/ReviewDay, and wondered if
> anybody would be interested in bringing it back to life? I think it
> would be good both for new contributors, and reviewers that could get
> help reviewing packages by experienced members of the community. I
> think once pr. month should be sufficent. Let me know what you think!

I think that a much better solution would be to encouroage people to exchange 
reviews, look for a package you find interesting that needs a review and offer 
to review it in exchange for the submitter reviewing one of yours.

This works for me every time.

Regards,

Hans