Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Results of Phase 1 of the Review Process study

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 15 Oct 2015, at 12:58, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 06:32:37PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> [...]
>> 
>> == Cycle Time [27] to [29] ==
>> This is not quite obvious from the definition in 1. For the cycle time, we 
>> basically ignore the mapping to a patch or patch series and just look at the 
>> cycle times between review iterations *regardless* of which series it 
>> belongs to.
>> 
>> For example [29] then tells us that the median cycle of any code review has 
>> been fairly static around 5 days from 2012.
>> 
>> == Backlog Analysis ==
>> This section shows us the total of patch series reviews that could be 
>> modelled (60%) over the project's life-time 
>> 
>> Complete: 5641
>> Active (aka activity in the last 7 days) : 78
>> Ongoing (aka activity in the last 12 months): 403
>> Stalled (no activity for 12 months): 600
> 
> Do note that this category covers several things: patches no longer
> needed, patches superseded by newer version but with different titles,
> patches to be upstreamed but lost momentum, so I wouldn't use this as
> primary index for how bad the community functions. In fact I think it
> shouldn't be given the same importance as the other two.

Agreed.

Lars
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