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Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors

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DIXMIT Consulting SLU, Enric Tobella Alomar
- 27/01/2026 09:33:15
Hello!

I like the idea of using statistics to show the path we expect contributors to follow. However, I don’t think we should ban or limit users who don’t follow that path.

In my experience, newcomers rarely meet these expectations at the beginning. It often takes around a year before people start collaborating the way we would like (doing reviews, participating in discussions, etc.). Some people get there faster, others slower, but we shouldn’t limit them because of that.

Obviously, we can enforce rules like a 2 reviews : 1 PR ratio for PSCs or maintainers (and IMO, we should), but not for everyone.

Collaboration data is very interesting, but relying only on data can be counterproductive and, in some cases, unfair. Reviews and contributions are hard to evaluate properly. Should we ban someone who does 3 high-quality reviews (with thoughtful comments and valuable points) and 10 fix PRs (including migrations), while promoting someone who does 10 reviews with no comments and 1 PR that creates a lot of extra work for others due to their way of working?

This kind of data can be useful when looking at large numbers and trends, but with smaller samples, it’s easy to draw the wrong conclusions. IMO, using it can be a double-edged sword.

So if we decide to use this data, I think it should be for promotion and visibility, not for banning contributors.

My 2 cents.

El mar, 27 ene 2026 a las 9:12, Tom Blauwendraat (<notifications@odoo-community.org>) escribió:
On 1/27/26 8:57 AM, Jairo Llopis wrote:


> IMHO statistics should be used as a prize, not as a weapon.

Agreed! And it still could achieve the same: if a PR or contributor is 
valued very highly, his/her PR's float to the top of the 
sorting/filtering of reviewers anyway. And also the message to the 
contributors is clear: *this* is how you can get a higher ranking. So it 
still might achieve the same.

Holger, what do you make of this inverted carrot approach rather than a 
stick?

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