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  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    > Holger, what do you make of this inverted carrot approach rather than a
    
    > stick?
    
    seeing it fail for 10+ years
    
    
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    by Holger Brunn - 09:50 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    On 1/27/26 9:37 AM, Enric Tobella Alomar wrote:
    
    > So if we decide to use this data, I think it should be for promotion 
    
    > and visibility, not for banning contributors.
    ...but what about for kindly, politely and lovingly ranking/labeling 
    PR's? Also rather not?
    

    by Tom Blauwendraat - 09:50 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    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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    by Enric Tobella Alomar - 09:35 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    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?
    
    

    by Tom Blauwendraat - 09:11 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    Hello folks!

    El vie, 23 ene 2026 a las 19:58, Holger Brunn (<notifications@odoo-community.org>) escribió:
    If after asking for more reviews, no reviews come, close the user's PRs
    automatically (in the repo, not all OCA) after some time.

    Also add a manual mechanism for banning users who try to cheat with bullshit
    reviews or otherwise undesirable behavior. PRs by banned users are closed
    automatically.

    The solution you're proposing is quite dramatic. Really, are we going to ban someone that contributes too much? We already have few contributions... 

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

    by Jairo Llopis - 08:55 - 27 Jan 2026
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  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    This might sound like a crazy way to handle, but how about solving by setting a PR limit per repo. So a PSC can set a policy of say, at any given time, only 10 open PR's are allowed, and no PR can be older than say 4 months. Once limit is hit, no new PR can be accepted until limits resolved. 

    On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM Raphaël Valyi <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
    Hello,

    I think Enric metrics could be a good basis. But sadly they are also easy to hack, some organizations already put some juniors to approve everything they can to brag about how well ranked in the OCA they are (yup), so sadly any metric will be cheated... That's why it's important we could have a human based process to ban people who are obviously trying to cheat the metrics.

    But in fact, I would suggest changing Enric metrics: Yes we want to value reviews because we need people to review instead of only expecting others to spend time reviewing their very own stuff for free.
    But what about stopping to count positive reviews once there are more than say 5 positive reviews for 1 negative. Say we agree we find it sane that at least 20% of the PR should detect problems and not just be lenient approval of the company PRs. People will still be able to approve more than 80% of the PRs they review, but at least they won't receive more points for that. And if we see juniors inventing non existing problems to boost their negative reviews quota, we can probably easily catch them.

    I don't know, any metric is easily a tyranny, but at some point we will have to play cats and mouses with these KPIs because it will be the only way to scale beyond the usual 50 historical committers. And yes, as Holger explained, generative AI is going to quickly put a huge burden on the already overworked real OCA contributors.


    On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM Tom Blauwendraat <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:

    For me it would be too much at once, and a bit of a blunt instrument.

    It could also be hacked by someone giving out two blind LGTM reviews in the repo per each PR he/she wants to do.

    What about an organisation-wide karma rating based on Enric's contribution statistics, perhaps adding more metrics there where needed, which the oca-git-bot then can read and apply labels to PR's that people then can choose to filter on? There are also some new tools out there that can detect AI contributions, so if someone does a lot of those, that could also negatively impact the karma score. When going below a certain karma rate, it then could lead to auto closing or banning, but that's something we could rather phase in gently.

    -Tom

    On 1/26/26 6:12 PM, Holger Brunn wrote:
    Thanks for your points.
    
    
    
    
    > some of my colleagues who entered academia
    
    
    
    > have lamented a similar sort of tendency in graduate students to favor the
    
    
    
    > creation and publication of novel work for their theses, rather than review
    
    
    
    > or reproduce the work of their peers
    
    and wouldn't it have saved us several replication crises if you simply don't 
    get to publish original work without attaching two replication papers?
    What I want to do here is shift incentives. We have to recognize that many 
    companies use publishing to OCA as a way of externalizing costs of QA and 
    maintenance, and as free stamp of quality.
    The individual employee then has the problem that they can use work time for 
    publishing code, but not for reviewing. Tying those two together hopefully 
    changes that.
    
    
    
    
    > And an option less intrusive but maybe more effective as setting a priority
    
    
    
    > on a rating of the contributor? 
    
    I'd like that too, but we're constrained by the possibilities github offers, 
    and that's simply not in the cards.
    If too many see autoclosing as too much of a problem (obviously I don't, we 
    really need to lessen cognitive load on maintainers), I could imagine a label 
    "reviewing contributor" that is set on PRs of people who do enough reviews, 
    and then other reviewers can focus on those PRs. But that won't be as powerful 
    for the incentive shifting I talk about above.
    
    
    
    
    > Can we give a way to appeal as well as a way to see what a
    
    
    
    > PR reviewed line count is for the repo?
    
    the action I've linked posts a message containing the line counts. Would be 
    easy to add to the closing message too.
    Appeal goes the same way as other cases like stale autoclosing: Ask 
    maintainers to reopen/apply a label to exempt from autoclosing.
    
    There is a class of janitorial PRs that should be exempted anyways, like fixing 
    CI or updating from copier, but I wouldn't want to trust a stochastic parrot 
    making that decision. And given those PRs tend to be merged fast, they don't 
    strain your "line budget" for long. Note I propose to only count *open* PRs, 
    once some PR is merged, it's off the ledger.
    
    
    
    
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    by Graeme Gellatly - 05:41 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    Hello,

    I think Enric metrics could be a good basis. But sadly they are also easy to hack, some organizations already put some juniors to approve everything they can to brag about how well ranked in the OCA they are (yup), so sadly any metric will be cheated... That's why it's important we could have a human based process to ban people who are obviously trying to cheat the metrics.

    But in fact, I would suggest changing Enric metrics: Yes we want to value reviews because we need people to review instead of only expecting others to spend time reviewing their very own stuff for free.
    But what about stopping to count positive reviews once there are more than say 5 positive reviews for 1 negative. Say we agree we find it sane that at least 20% of the PR should detect problems and not just be lenient approval of the company PRs. People will still be able to approve more than 80% of the PRs they review, but at least they won't receive more points for that. And if we see juniors inventing non existing problems to boost their negative reviews quota, we can probably easily catch them.

    I don't know, any metric is easily a tyranny, but at some point we will have to play cats and mouses with these KPIs because it will be the only way to scale beyond the usual 50 historical committers. And yes, as Holger explained, generative AI is going to quickly put a huge burden on the already overworked real OCA contributors.


    On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM Tom Blauwendraat <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:

    For me it would be too much at once, and a bit of a blunt instrument.

    It could also be hacked by someone giving out two blind LGTM reviews in the repo per each PR he/she wants to do.

    What about an organisation-wide karma rating based on Enric's contribution statistics, perhaps adding more metrics there where needed, which the oca-git-bot then can read and apply labels to PR's that people then can choose to filter on? There are also some new tools out there that can detect AI contributions, so if someone does a lot of those, that could also negatively impact the karma score. When going below a certain karma rate, it then could lead to auto closing or banning, but that's something we could rather phase in gently.

    -Tom

    On 1/26/26 6:12 PM, Holger Brunn wrote:
    Thanks for your points.
    
    
    
    > some of my colleagues who entered academia
    
    
    > have lamented a similar sort of tendency in graduate students to favor the
    
    
    > creation and publication of novel work for their theses, rather than review
    
    
    > or reproduce the work of their peers
    
    and wouldn't it have saved us several replication crises if you simply don't 
    get to publish original work without attaching two replication papers?
    What I want to do here is shift incentives. We have to recognize that many 
    companies use publishing to OCA as a way of externalizing costs of QA and 
    maintenance, and as free stamp of quality.
    The individual employee then has the problem that they can use work time for 
    publishing code, but not for reviewing. Tying those two together hopefully 
    changes that.
    
    
    
    > And an option less intrusive but maybe more effective as setting a priority
    
    
    > on a rating of the contributor? 
    
    I'd like that too, but we're constrained by the possibilities github offers, 
    and that's simply not in the cards.
    If too many see autoclosing as too much of a problem (obviously I don't, we 
    really need to lessen cognitive load on maintainers), I could imagine a label 
    "reviewing contributor" that is set on PRs of people who do enough reviews, 
    and then other reviewers can focus on those PRs. But that won't be as powerful 
    for the incentive shifting I talk about above.
    
    
    
    > Can we give a way to appeal as well as a way to see what a
    
    
    > PR reviewed line count is for the repo?
    
    the action I've linked posts a message containing the line counts. Would be 
    easy to add to the closing message too.
    Appeal goes the same way as other cases like stale autoclosing: Ask 
    maintainers to reopen/apply a label to exempt from autoclosing.
    
    There is a class of janitorial PRs that should be exempted anyways, like fixing 
    CI or updating from copier, but I wouldn't want to trust a stochastic parrot 
    making that decision. And given those PRs tend to be merged fast, they don't 
    strain your "line budget" for long. Note I propose to only count *open* PRs, 
    once some PR is merged, it's off the ledger.
    
    
    
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    by Raphaël Akretion - 03:46 - 27 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors

    For me it would be too much at once, and a bit of a blunt instrument.

    It could also be hacked by someone giving out two blind LGTM reviews in the repo per each PR he/she wants to do.

    What about an organisation-wide karma rating based on Enric's contribution statistics, perhaps adding more metrics there where needed, which the oca-git-bot then can read and apply labels to PR's that people then can choose to filter on? There are also some new tools out there that can detect AI contributions, so if someone does a lot of those, that could also negatively impact the karma score. When going below a certain karma rate, it then could lead to auto closing or banning, but that's something we could rather phase in gently.

    -Tom

    On 1/26/26 6:12 PM, Holger Brunn wrote:
    Thanks for your points.
    
    
    > some of my colleagues who entered academia
    
    > have lamented a similar sort of tendency in graduate students to favor the
    
    > creation and publication of novel work for their theses, rather than review
    
    > or reproduce the work of their peers
    
    and wouldn't it have saved us several replication crises if you simply don't 
    get to publish original work without attaching two replication papers?
    What I want to do here is shift incentives. We have to recognize that many 
    companies use publishing to OCA as a way of externalizing costs of QA and 
    maintenance, and as free stamp of quality.
    The individual employee then has the problem that they can use work time for 
    publishing code, but not for reviewing. Tying those two together hopefully 
    changes that.
    
    
    > And an option less intrusive but maybe more effective as setting a priority
    
    > on a rating of the contributor? 
    
    I'd like that too, but we're constrained by the possibilities github offers, 
    and that's simply not in the cards.
    If too many see autoclosing as too much of a problem (obviously I don't, we 
    really need to lessen cognitive load on maintainers), I could imagine a label 
    "reviewing contributor" that is set on PRs of people who do enough reviews, 
    and then other reviewers can focus on those PRs. But that won't be as powerful 
    for the incentive shifting I talk about above.
    
    
    > Can we give a way to appeal as well as a way to see what a
    
    > PR reviewed line count is for the repo?
    
    the action I've linked posts a message containing the line counts. Would be 
    easy to add to the closing message too.
    Appeal goes the same way as other cases like stale autoclosing: Ask 
    maintainers to reopen/apply a label to exempt from autoclosing.
    
    There is a class of janitorial PRs that should be exempted anyways, like fixing 
    CI or updating from copier, but I wouldn't want to trust a stochastic parrot 
    making that decision. And given those PRs tend to be merged fast, they don't 
    strain your "line budget" for long. Note I propose to only count *open* PRs, 
    once some PR is merged, it's off the ledger.
    
    
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    by Tom Blauwendraat - 10:30 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    Thanks for your points.
    
    
    > some of my colleagues who entered academia
    
    > have lamented a similar sort of tendency in graduate students to favor the
    
    > creation and publication of novel work for their theses, rather than review
    
    > or reproduce the work of their peers
    
    and wouldn't it have saved us several replication crises if you simply don't 
    get to publish original work without attaching two replication papers?
    What I want to do here is shift incentives. We have to recognize that many 
    companies use publishing to OCA as a way of externalizing costs of QA and 
    maintenance, and as free stamp of quality.
    The individual employee then has the problem that they can use work time for 
    publishing code, but not for reviewing. Tying those two together hopefully 
    changes that.
    
    
    > And an option less intrusive but maybe more effective as setting a priority
    
    > on a rating of the contributor? 
    
    I'd like that too, but we're constrained by the possibilities github offers, 
    and that's simply not in the cards.
    If too many see autoclosing as too much of a problem (obviously I don't, we 
    really need to lessen cognitive load on maintainers), I could imagine a label 
    "reviewing contributor" that is set on PRs of people who do enough reviews, 
    and then other reviewers can focus on those PRs. But that won't be as powerful 
    for the incentive shifting I talk about above.
    
    
    > Can we give a way to appeal as well as a way to see what a
    
    > PR reviewed line count is for the repo?
    
    the action I've linked posts a message containing the line counts. Would be 
    easy to add to the closing message too.
    Appeal goes the same way as other cases like stale autoclosing: Ask 
    maintainers to reopen/apply a label to exempt from autoclosing.
    
    There is a class of janitorial PRs that should be exempted anyways, like fixing 
    CI or updating from copier, but I wouldn't want to trust a stochastic parrot 
    making that decision. And given those PRs tend to be merged fast, they don't 
    strain your "line budget" for long. Note I propose to only count *open* PRs, 
    once some PR is merged, it's off the ledger.
    
    
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    by Holger Brunn - 06:10 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Weighing scales
    El 26/1/26 a las 11:52, Kristof Gommers escribió:

    So just to be clear , even if I have a certified weighing scale, odoo itself isn't certified enough as POS in european setting?

    AFAIK, there is not an european cert for PoS, at least for weighing, in some regions of Spain we must certificate our accounting software in local tax authority but in others regions not...

    When a client of ours (a supermarket) has had an inspection by the consumer authority, they have checked with a known weight the scale and the final result in the PoS, they validate the whole set is measuring fine in display and final ticket. They asked for the certificates of the scales, but they didn't say anything about the software.

    I think we are mixing two different legal issues in PoS:

    1. Accounting, each region has its own rules.

    2. Consumers, each scale must be certificated, revised properly, measuring fine and must communicate reliably with PoS software.

    Regards.

    santi noreña

    criptomart servicios informáticos



    by Santiago Noreña Sobrado - 04:11 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Accrual for Annual Bonus

    Hello everyone


    I'm seeking advice on an accounting workflow for the 13th month salary or annual bonus within Odoo.


    I need to know if there's an Odoo standard workflow or an OCA module that can help book this expense monthly, as we are not using a payroll module.


    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


    Many thanks,

    Lin



    by Lin Nur Inayati - 02:05 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Weighing scales

    Hey All,

    Already thank you for the replies.

    I was under the impression if the scale is certified it should not be a problem?
    Connect a scale — Odoo 19.0 documentation

    The only requirement is that it is intregrated no?


    I could be wrong since I don't have any knowledge about the legal info about scales.
    As far as I know every scale has to be "checked" every 4 years by company that is registered as official by the goverment(in Belgium)

    So just to be clear , even if I have a certified weighing scale, odoo itself isn't certified enough as POS in european setting?

    Sincerely
    Kristof

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    From: Frederik Kramer <notifications@odoo-community.org>
    Sent: Monday, January 26, 2026 10:22
    To: Contributors <contributors@odoo-community.org>
    Subject: Re: Weighing scales
     

    Hi all, 

    well the latest i heard on this was from fellow Odooer Laurence Labusch (and his company Labiso GmbH). He has spent considerable time to narrow down that issue with the authorities and afaik it is still not allowed to use an electronic wheiging scale even if the POS itself is working according to the national standard which in Germany is implemented using fiskaly TSE unless the whole POS is certified with the weighing scale but maybe Laurence (which i am putting on copy can answer himself).

    Best Frederik

    P.S.: Jan-Marten maybe you can make Laurence aware of the Hamburg OCA Sprint ;-)

    Am 26.01.26 um 10:12 schrieb Jan-Marten Veddeler:

    My latest information (more a guess/feeling) from Odoo customer service (and some online research) on this was that if the POS is certified (like e.g. Odoo POS via fiscaly is in Germany), then the scale itself does not need to have an additional certification, and that this may explain why Odoo removed the below  notice from its later documentation from v18 on
    "Odoo is not certified in several countries, including France, Germany, and Switzerland. If you reside in one of these countries, you can still use a scale but without integration into your Odoo database. Alternatively, you can acquire a non-integrated certified scale that prints certified labels, which can then be scanned into your Odoo database."

    Anyone has more clarity on this scale certification part in Germany or other EU countries?

    Best
    Jan

    On 1/26/2026 11:37 AM, hugues de keyzer wrote:
    , to use a scale connected to a
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    by Kristof Gommers - 11:51 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Weighing scales

    Hi all, 

    well the latest i heard on this was from fellow Odooer Laurence Labusch (and his company Labiso GmbH). He has spent considerable time to narrow down that issue with the authorities and afaik it is still not allowed to use an electronic wheiging scale even if the POS itself is working according to the national standard which in Germany is implemented using fiskaly TSE unless the whole POS is certified with the weighing scale but maybe Laurence (which i am putting on copy can answer himself).

    Best Frederik

    P.S.: Jan-Marten maybe you can make Laurence aware of the Hamburg OCA Sprint ;-)

    Am 26.01.26 um 10:12 schrieb Jan-Marten Veddeler:

    My latest information (more a guess/feeling) from Odoo customer service (and some online research) on this was that if the POS is certified (like e.g. Odoo POS via fiscaly is in Germany), then the scale itself does not need to have an additional certification, and that this may explain why Odoo removed the below  notice from its later documentation from v18 on
    "Odoo is not certified in several countries, including France, Germany, and Switzerland. If you reside in one of these countries, you can still use a scale but without integration into your Odoo database. Alternatively, you can acquire a non-integrated certified scale that prints certified labels, which can then be scanned into your Odoo database."

    Anyone has more clarity on this scale certification part in Germany or other EU countries?

    Best
    Jan

    On 1/26/2026 11:37 AM, hugues de keyzer wrote:
    , to use a scale connected to a
    --

    Jan-Marten Veddeler
    +49 15158887067 
    j.veddeler@humanilog.org
    linkedin.com/in/jmveddeler
    Berlin | Germany

    Humanitarian Logistics Organisation e.V. | Humanilog
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    by Frederik Kramer. - 10:20 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Weighing scales

    My latest information (more a guess/feeling) from Odoo customer service (and some online research) on this was that if the POS is certified (like e.g. Odoo POS via fiscaly is in Germany), then the scale itself does not need to have an additional certification, and that this may explain why Odoo removed the below  notice from its later documentation from v18 on
    "Odoo is not certified in several countries, including France, Germany, and Switzerland. If you reside in one of these countries, you can still use a scale but without integration into your Odoo database. Alternatively, you can acquire a non-integrated certified scale that prints certified labels, which can then be scanned into your Odoo database."

    Anyone has more clarity on this scale certification part in Germany or other EU countries?

    Best
    Jan

    On 1/26/2026 11:37 AM, hugues de keyzer wrote:
    , to use a scale connected to a
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    by Jan-Marten Veddeler. - 10:11 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: Weighing scales

    hello,

    thanks santi for the information. i didn’t know that there was a solution for epelsa scales. good to know!

    some people are also using other scales that use the toledo protocol, like the baxtran tw/vw, with pywebdriver.

    please note that in eu member states, to use a scale connected to a pos computer, certification is legally required (as mentioned here), and afaik, odoo does not provide that certification.

    kind regards,

    hugues de keyzer

    Le 2026-01-24 à 14:51, Oficina CriptoMart a écrit :

    Hi,

    El 22/1/26 a las 20:11, Kristof Gommers escribió:
    These scales are sometimes too expensive for customers , did anyone else had success with other scales which also work with an IOT box or any other connection.

    We are installing Epelsa scales, this model most: https://grupoepelsa.com/en/basic-range-scales/77083-56-ppi-balanza-6-kg.html

    We have integrated Epelsa driver in a IOT Box image to support it: https://github.com/criptomart/iotbox-epelsa

    Regards.

    santi noreña

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    by hugues - 09:35 - 26 Jan 2026
  • Re: OCA Server appears to be down 2026/01/24 9:40 AM Mountain
    On 1/24/26 11:52 PM, Pierre Verkest wrote:
    
    > As far as I can tell, Odoo couldn't connect to the database, I've no 
    
    > access to the database logs to investigate more, we probably reached 
    
    > the connection pool limit.
    Same here, I see Postgres crashed, but I don't have enough rights to 
    know what happened.
    

    by Tom Blauwendraat - 11:36 - 25 Jan 2026
  • Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors
    It sounds fair, especially if the explanation of the situation accompanies any blockages.
    Can we give a way to appeal as well as a way to see what a PR reviewed line count is for the repo?
    If we are keeping the count, then, hopefully, we could be able to share it.

    Is this an area where AI could help?

    JP

    On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM Sergio Corato <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
    And an option less intrusive but maybe more effective as setting a priority on a rating of the contributor? Computed on reviews, porting, modules etc or whatever.
    Then show the PRs on this priority and set in the guidelines that they will be prioritized?

    Sergio Corato

    Il ven 23 gen 2026, 21:41 Adam Heinz <notifications@odoo-community.org> ha scritto:
    I understand where this is coming from, but have trouble believing that punishment will yield additional reviews. A small number of my own pull requests have been fixes for modules that I don't even use, because they were breaking the repository build. Under the proposed system, I would have to spend additional time reviewing pull requests (that I don't care about) to earn the privilege of fixing modules (that I don't care about).

    Speaking outside of my own experience, some of my colleagues who entered academia have lamented a similar sort of tendency in graduate students to favor the creation and publication of novel work for their theses, rather than review or reproduce the work of their peers.

    My best successes have been when another contributor and I accidentally worked on a fix or migration in parallel, then noticed each other and reviewed the better of the two prototypes. This suggests to me that perhaps a more granular ability to Watch a specific module instead of an entire repository could more easily put like-minded individuals in a position of mutual benefit (Jita Kyoei 自他共栄).

    On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM Holger Brunn <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
    Hi all,
    
    on the OCA days, we discussed that the current situation with having way too 
    much input for way too few reviewers is untenable. This has not improved 
    since, quite the opposite. It's really hard to find the gems in the noise.
    
    Back then, I called for better automation for this, so here my proposal:
    
    Have a github action that counts lines of PRs somebody opened in a repo, vs 
    the lines of PRs the person reviewed in that repo. Everyone must review at 
    least twice as much as they submit.
    
    If after asking for more reviews, no reviews come, close the user's PRs 
    automatically (in the repo, not all OCA) after some time.
    
    Also add a manual mechanism for banning users who try to cheat with bullshit 
    reviews or otherwise undesirable behavior. PRs by banned users are closed 
    automatically.
    
    I implemented both in
    https://github.com/hbrunn/social/blob/18.0/.github/workflows/reciprocity.yml
    resp
    https://github.com/hbrunn/social/blob/18.0/.github/workflows/ban.yml
    
    You can test this by creating PRs against my fork after cloning my version of 
    the 18.0 branch.
    Banning works by adding a handle to a file .banned.txt in the repo's root.
    
    Before proposing this to oca-addons-repo-template, I'd like to hear some input 
    from you.
    
    Best regards,
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    by joel.patrick - 02:15 - 25 Jan 2026
  • Re: OCA Server appears to be down 2026/01/24 9:40 AM Mountain
    Thanks for reporting.

    This mailing list is managed by our Odoo itself so it's a bit of a chicken and eggs problem !

    Feel free to open an issue in https://github.com/OCA/oca-custom (at least I follow that repo) or you could ping the "Internal Tools" github team https://github.com/orgs/OCA/teams/internal-tools/members

    As far as I can tell, Odoo couldn't connect to the database, I've no access to the database logs to investigate more, we probably reached the connection pool limit.

    Regards,
    Pierre


    Le sam. 24 janv. 2026 à 23:37, Landis Arnold <notifications@odoo-community.org> a écrit :
    Yes,
    I noted just a bit ago it was just working again.

    Several hours differential now. (5 hours) as 15:26 PM
    After sending here, I found an "issue" location that might work for such posts but doubt that is an  "immediate action" area.

    https://github.com/OCA/odoo-community.org/issues/255

    I closed the issue which I created there after sending out the email here earlier today.

    Glad it is running now,

    Landis 

    Landis Arnold



    From: "Daniel Reis" <notifications@odoo-community.org>
    To: "Odoo Community Association, (OCA) Contributors" <contributors@odoo-community.org>
    Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 3:21:45 PM
    Subject: Re: OCA Server appears to be down  2026/01/24  9:40 AM Mountain

    I tried it just now and it was workinh on my end.

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    From: Landis Arnold <notifications@odoo-community.org>
    Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 9:57:26 PM
    To: Contributors <contributors@odoo-community.org>
    Subject: OCA Server appears to be down 2026/01/24 9:40 AM Mountain
     
    I was looking for a way to post this somewhere besides on the "down" OCA site.
    perhaps in Github.

    Anyway, all returns I am finding for OCA t his morning (USA Colorado Time) are returning

    As an example:
    https://odoo-community.org/blog/news-updates-1/oca-mailing-lists-216

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.


    Perhaps this would best be posted to GitHub but did not find a General "Issues" area that is not related to a specific repository.

    Anyway, I thought to get the note out to those who might fix.
    Often an easy fix, but who knows from the outside.

    Best to all.
    I appreciate your great work.


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    USA

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    by Pierre Verkest - 11:50 - 24 Jan 2026
  • Re: OCA Server appears to be down 2026/01/24 9:40 AM Mountain
    Yes,
    I noted just a bit ago it was just working again.

    Several hours differential now. (5 hours) as 15:26 PM
    After sending here, I found an "issue" location that might work for such posts but doubt that is an  "immediate action" area.

    https://github.com/OCA/odoo-community.org/issues/255

    I closed the issue which I created there after sending out the email here earlier today.

    Glad it is running now,

    Landis 

    Landis Arnold



    From: "Daniel Reis" <notifications@odoo-community.org>
    To: "Odoo Community Association, (OCA) Contributors" <contributors@odoo-community.org>
    Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 3:21:45 PM
    Subject: Re: OCA Server appears to be down  2026/01/24  9:40 AM Mountain

    I tried it just now and it was workinh on my end.

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    From: Landis Arnold <notifications@odoo-community.org>
    Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 9:57:26 PM
    To: Contributors <contributors@odoo-community.org>
    Subject: OCA Server appears to be down 2026/01/24 9:40 AM Mountain
     
    I was looking for a way to post this somewhere besides on the "down" OCA site.
    perhaps in Github.

    Anyway, all returns I am finding for OCA t his morning (USA Colorado Time) are returning

    As an example:
    https://odoo-community.org/blog/news-updates-1/oca-mailing-lists-216

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.


    Perhaps this would best be posted to GitHub but did not find a General "Issues" area that is not related to a specific repository.

    Anyway, I thought to get the note out to those who might fix.
    Often an easy fix, but who knows from the outside.

    Best to all.
    I appreciate your great work.


    Landis Arnold

    Nomadic, Inc.
    Niwot, CO 80503
    USA

    larnold@nomadic.net


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    by Landis Arnold - 11:35 - 24 Jan 2026