[teampractices] [TPG/URGENT-ISH] Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day

Wed Aug 5 19:18:42 UTC 2015

Generally: Thanks for all the feedback in this thread. Appreciated!

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 14:50 -0400, Kristen Lans wrote:
> Overall seems fine to me, especially given that this is an 
> experiment. As with all experiments, I wonder: how will you know you 
> are successful? I see things like "All open changesets submitted by 
> *new* volunteers (as opposed to new changesets alone) in the last 
> three months should have at least one review.". 

For the specific example, data in Korma might be helpful to evaluate:
http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/code_contrib_new_gone.html
(However it's unclear to me how often that is updated; also see 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102112 marked as a blocker)

> Probably be good to be really clear and explicit about what success 
> looks like for this event in order to evaluate whether or not it will 
> be an ongoing thing. 

+1 on "we need metrics for evaluation of success"
That's an area I still need to do more homework.

andre
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