Hi everybody,
yesterday I created a user group "corporate" on review.coreboot.org and added all people who I assume are paid for working on coreboot (based on their email address domains).
Corporate contributions tend to be high volume and there are usually multiple people interested in getting them through review, so they're typically well-covered with regard to review activity. At the same time due to these properties they risk drowning out individual contributions which are often smaller and by developers without large teams supporting them: Simple by the number of commits and the amount of activity, corporate contributions tend to fill up the first page of commits in gerrit (which is sorted by activity), pushing other contributions into the back catalog.
Using the group as a filter https://review.coreboot.org/q/is:open+-ownerin:corporate provides a view of just the changes that might otherwise be overlooked. If you want you can add it as a shortcut to Gerrit's menu at https://review.coreboot.org/settings/#Menu (entries defined here appear in the "Your" menu)
The group isn't perfect (there are some folks still missing, and I'm still tuning my scripts to help with automatic group maintenance), but I hope it's already a helpful tool for increasing visibility of non-corporate community members' contributions.
Regards, Patrick Georgi
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Patrick Georgi