For those of you who don't know, Robyn and I don't actually do all of
the triage of all of these PRs by ourselves. We have a semi-autonomous
bot that helps.
Basically, every time we run it, it walks through every PR and figures
out "what should I do with this?"
There are two files, MAINTAINERS-CORE.txt and MAINTAINERS-EXTRAS.txt,
that list all of the maintainers of record of each module. The bot
pings the owner of the module when a new PR comes in, tags the module
with "shipit" when the module owner says so, etc., etc.
Right now, this runs in semi-autonomous mode, because there are still
a bunch of corner cases we don't catch. I would like to get it into a
fully-autonomous mode, because sometimes Robyn and I disappear to a
conference for a week and are too exhausted to run the damned thing.
Anyway, it exists. I would say "patches definitely welcome" -- and
they are, but since you have to have commit access to make it work, it
can only be run by a small handful of people. We're working on
improving that too.
