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[Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Daniel Holbach
<daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Jono talked to David and me and asked if we could help the ARB somewhat.
>
> As a result of a long delay of getting the tools in place and everybody
> being busy in their other roles, it seems there's a big problem with
> latency.
>

Yes Daniel, I respectfully agree with you in this regard.

> To assess the situation, I had a look at [1] and found the following:
>
> +-----------------------------------------------------+
> |   bug  | in queue | longest time (in d) |    who    |
> |        | (in d)   | between comments    |           |
> +-----------------------------------------------------+
> | 644066 |   429    |   224               |   ARB     |
> | 691347 |   342    |   285               |   ARB     |
> | 730196 |   263    |   206               |   ARB     |
> | 758020 |   227    |   168               |   ARB     |
> | 763937 |   221    |   164               |   ARB     |
> | 861471 |    57    |    55               |   ARB     |
> | 861480 |    57    |    43               |   ARB     |
> | 861540 |    57    |    57               |   ARB     |
> | 866067 |    51    |    51               |   ARB     |
> | 866086 |    51    |    51               |   ARB     |
> | 867660 |    51    |    51               |   ARB     |
> | 877023 |    37    |    37               |   ARB     |
> | 877029 |    37    |    37               |   ARB     |
> | 877047 |    37    |    27               | submitter |
> | 877057 |    37    |    37               |   ARB     |
> | 881489 |    30    |    30               |   ARB     |
> | 881515 |    30    |    26               | submitter |
> | 881515 |    30    |    30               |   ARB     |
> +-----------------------------------------------------+
> |   18   |   ∅ 113  |  ∅ 87               |  89% ARB  |
> +-----------------------------------------------------+
>
> This is quite unscientific, but I just counted how long the bug had been
> sitting there already and what the longest time between a request for
> comment and a sufficient reply was. Also does this not take into account
> how many bugs have been closed already.
>

Being a new recruit on the ARB, I'm getting a hold on the terms now
and I'll definitely kick on very soon in this regard.

> Still it would be good to get the numbers down. I'll start a separate
> conversation with the myapps team to find out if we can build in some of
> these statistics.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-app-review-board/+bugs
>
>
> Most of the requests above require the initial review, others require
> some action to get the package in. What do you feel would help you? Are
> the bug statuses / bug tags you use sufficient? Would it help for ARB
> members to have a dedicated ARB day in the week where they spend some
> time on the queue? Would you like to invite others to help review the
> packages?

Bug tagging does help us a lot in identifying bugs and we have already
a program similar to the patch pilot program in place (which was one
of the action items decided in the ARB sessions at UDS)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/ReviewShifts

Secondly, One of the suggestions made at the ARB session in UDS was to
create a team such as ARB-contributors and make it a open team for
other developers who wish to help us in reviewing (and packaging).

Any other ideas welcome.

Regards
-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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https://launchpad.net/~bhavi