>Hi everyone.
>James and I have been discussing this and we figured it would make
>sense to use next week's Tuesday's backlog review meeting to identify
>15-20 PRs which are a MUST for the release and focus on them.
>
>Obviously that's on top of people reviewing the huge pool of PRs.  
>
>Any objections to this idea?

This makes sense. In the meantime we'll keep reviewing as much as we can before Tuesday to bring down the overall backlog.

Thanks,
Pradipta

>
>Thanks. 
>On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:11 AM Hunt, James O
><james.o.hunt@intel.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> # TL;DR
>
> Please start commenting on the PRs in [1].
>
>
> # A plea
>
> We currently have 115 open PRs [1]. That figure *excludes* the
>do-not-merge / wip ones! It's great that the project is seeing so
>much activity, but here we hit a bottleneck...
>
> We have one hundred and fifteen bug fixes and features that have not
>landed and *cannot* land until they have been reviewed and
>approved... by you! The project mandates these reviews and "acks",
>and for good reason. But until we get more review activity, all those
>bug fixes and features are "blocked". That's a big shame considering
>how much time and energy that has gone into creating the PRs, and how
>close we are to a major release!
>
> If you can spare some cycles, *please* take a look at the backlog
>[1] and help us to get these changes merged to make Kata better and
>keep the project momentum high.
>
> Never done this before? No problem - just dive in! Well, after
>you've taken a peek at [2] and [3]. You might also want to look at
>[4] for inspiration. Any problems - head for [5] ;)
>
>
> # An idea
>
> Could we identify a "Top 10" set of PRs each week that we will do
>everything possible to get landed? I'm sure everyone will have their
>own opinion of which PRs are important here. Maybe we could vote
>somehow? If we can implement this, I'd like to suggest that if you
>propose a "Top 10" PR, you would be expected to help out where
>possible getting that PR landed *and* helping with the outstanding
>backlog. Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> [1] -
>https://github.com/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+org%3Akata-contai
>ners+-label%3Ado-not-merge+-label%3Awip&utf8=%E2%9C%93
> [2] -
>https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/master/CODE_OF_COND
>UCT.md
> [3] -
>https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING
>.md
> [4] -
>https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/master/PR-Review-Gu
>ide.md
> [5] -
>https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/master/README.md#jo
>in-us
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