Code review required for commits - Discuss.

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 08:34:02AM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Volker Lendecke
> <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:31:38AM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
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> >> On 2012-10-12 10:20, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> >>
> >> > Just be a PITA for the reviewers. Send mails, call them, start to
> >> > use other means like hop on a train to Goettingen with a LART tool
> >> > :-)
> >>
> >> That's a reasonable effort for people who work on Samba on their
> >> dayjob. I've got to take at least one day off at work to get to
> >> Göttingen. On the worst case scenario, that limits me to 30 patchsets
> >> a year, assuming I spend all my vacation getting patches in. ;)
> >>
> >> I'm still worried that this system is going to leak patches,
> >> especially if we don't allow for pushes after patches were ignored for
> >> a while.
> >>
> >> I think if we go towards a required review system, we really, really
> >> need to make sure we don't drop patches.
> >
> > This comes down to people interested in it. To me this is a
> > social process that will have leaks, but all human activity
> > has the potential for flaws. I think the mechanism to fix
> > things after mistakes have happened don't need to be
> > formalized. If your patches for the DNS server are ignored
> > forever, the ultimate fix is to create a modular interface
> > so that you can do your own thing independently. This is
> > really the ultima ratio with many, many steps before that.
> 
> 
> I'm at -1, also.  This was NEVER to be used to split the project.
> This is a quality tool to improve the project.

Sure, don't get me wrong please! Kai was worried that he
would not be able to get things through AT ALL, EVER. There
are community meetings twice a year, we are present via many
channels. I think there will be ways to find at least one
reviewer who is interested. And -- to be honest, if it is
code that is so isolated that really nobody cares at all,
and that over many months, we might be better off to remove
it.

Volker

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