Talk:Code review/Patch board

Who are the intended reviewers?
People with +2 only? Everyone? Goats?

I'd like to contribute, but don't posses +2 in significant repositories (and lack a drive to acquire them anytime soon). (Meaninglessly adding +1 when +2 are required should probably be avoided if nothing of value is to be gained, it'd just add noise) &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 21:39, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Its primarily intended for people who have +2 in the repo the patch is in. Of course you're welcome to give helpful feedback to patches regardless of if you have +2. The primary intention is to get stuck things "unstuck" by either merging or giving the creator concrete steps they can do to get it merged. If you can do that without having +2, by all means, but in most cases I think you would need +2. Bawolff (talk) 22:09, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Awesome idea
I don't have any patches that I'm ready to add here yet, but I must say this is an awesome idea. * Pppery * it has begun 22:37, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

What about using hashtags?
Just an idea. Gerrit has hash tag functionality. Something to consider is if it might be easier (for reviewers and people needing reviews) to tag Gerrit patches with a hash tag and to link that here ? We could also auto-tag patches listed here.

We did this during the wishathon event and I thought it was pretty effective: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/hashtag:wishathon Jdlrobson (talk) 20:35, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Boldly picked "" TheresNoTime (talk) 00:37, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Bookmarked! Jdlrobson (talk) 17:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * One thing I do like about the wiki-page, is it draws new people in (e.g. via Special:Recentchanges), where gerrit tags are less noticable if you aren't already following them. Anyways, I hope we do both. Bawolff (talk) 18:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hashtags could be useful, yes. The patchboard name works for me, although maybe we could use patchboard-inbox, patchboard-inreview, patchboard-$random_status to sort the requests according to the review status. A bot adding and sorting the patches on-wiki based on these gerrit hashtags would be great too. In any case, thanks for this. &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:23, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Is this thing still alive?
No edits in almost a month, none of the patches here have been reviewed in weeks. Does anyone intend to monitor this page? * Pppery * it has begun 02:42, 28 August 2023 (UTC)