How do we handle the "bursting" of maintainer reviews?
Overview
During the last 2022-05-04 working group call (agenda) a few participantss spoke to the idea that removing the
Potential Solutions
- Add an upper-bound for the number of assigned MR reviews for each maintainer when roulette picks a maintainer.
- More accurately record the maintainer ratio for each project taking in to account current capacity.
- Increase the current 2-day SLO for maintainer reviews.
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Boring solution: Ask all maintainers who are concerned about capacity issues to remove their
🔴 en masse, which will likely have the counter-intuitive effect of more evenly spreading out reviews and avoiding the need to🔴 in the first place.
Edited by Max Woolf