what I did on my patch-pilot week

[Robert Collins]

So, I spent a total of ~3 hours piloting.

We need more pilots: please signup on http://bazaar-vcs.org/PatchPilot.
Anyone can be a pilot, though PQM access will make it easier.

I initially looked at branches submitted during the week I was piloting
(simply looking for 2009-11-21+ in the +activereviews page let me find
these branches pretty easily). And I've been following on any patches I
started piloting through to in-or-out status, because I think its nice
for the contributors to have that contact (even if it is for a single
patch).

I ended up looking at a bunch of branches, older ones, and also ones
from https://code.edge.launchpad.net/bazaar/+activereviews - various
plugins etc had many stale reviews.

A few folk had no contributor agreement, and I couldn't initially add
people myself, nor could Martin delegate that access; we tweaked the
team arrangement as a result, and now there is a team of folk that can
add new people to the contributor agreement team. That team will need to
be Canonical staff only AFAIK. To avoid this becoming an issue I suggest
that pilots who are not staff pick someone (e.g.  Martin) and mail them
when they need to have someone sign the agreement. So first check the
persons team memberships
(https://edge.launchpad.net/~USERNAME/+participation), If they are not
in https://edge.launchpad.net/~contributor-agreement-canonical, then you
need to ask them to sign the agreement. In the merge proposal you would
write:
"You do not appear to have signed the Canonical contributor form
(http://www.canonical.com/contributors). Could you please follow the
instructions there and copy both martin.pool at canonical.com and myself
when you send it in."
Then, when the contributor mails you, you can ping Martin to get them
added.

Cheers,
Rob
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