As someone who can just +/-1, where would my help be of most use to decrease the number of open changesets?

I know that for some of the MediaWiki repos +1 is ignored (or is even interpreted as a signal that something is wrong) so it would be nice to know before I invest time in going through changesets.

/André

On 10 Feb 2016 17:03, <info@gno.de> wrote:
On first 4 pages we have more than 50 patches to review or to submit whereas additional 40 has to be improved and are waiting for the committer or author (or any other coder who adopts that code ;)


Best
xqt

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup@gmail.com>
An:      info@gno.de, pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org
Datum:   10.02.2016 16:17
Betreff: Re: [pywikibot] Number of open changesets

> I'm in favor of +2ing patches but most of open patches have -1 or -2 in
> their code review part.
>
> Best
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:54 PM <info@gno.de> wrote:
>
> > A better way would be to commit some patches. There are a lot of
> proposals
> > which have minor changes and could be approved quickly.
> >
> > best
> >
> > xqt
> >
> > ----- Original Nachricht ----
> > Von:     Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup@gmail.com>
> > An:      Pywikibot discussion list <pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Datum:   09.02.2016 18:10
> > Betreff: [pywikibot] Number of open changesets
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Per stats
> > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Reports/Changesets_by_project>.
> > > There are 305 open change sets in pywikibot/core which make us the
> second
> > > project after mediawiki/core in number of open change sets. Open change
> > > sets won't do any harm but sometimes it's hard to find good patches in
> > pool
> > > of out-of-date-or-not-needed-anymore patches.
> > >
> > > Some projects have rules like "if a change set has -2 for more than N
> > > weeks, it can be abandoned" it can work for us. Also I think if we look
> > > into our own old patches we might find several patches that are not
> > needed
> > > anymore due to several reasons such as being implemented another way,
> too
> > > big schema change in pywikibot, etc. We can abandon them. Please check
> > your
> > > old patches.
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > >
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