Improving how we work with external contributors: Make double-reviews optional in review trial

[Simo]

On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 14:16 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 01:36:16PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > Certainly I've almost ceased actively applying patches from external
> > contributors - with other calls on my time, the additional burden here
> > means I've left to others what I was previously actively merging. 
> 
> I still prefer two Team eyes on all code changes.
> 
> My workflow has changed. I now regard patch reviews as my
> number one activity, and only work on my own new code once
> my review queue is empty.
> 
> I think any Team member who is paid full-time to work on
> Samba should also make this change.
> 
> Team members who are not working full-time on Samba (Kai,
> Jelmer etc.) should not be expected to do this (as the
> time they have to create code is more valuable for them
> as it's not their primary job).
> 
> This means you, me, Metze, Volker, Michael (and the
> rest of the SerNet Team :-) Andreas, David, Guenther,
> (apologies if I've forgotten anyone else :-) etc. should
> be doing the heavy lifting on external patch reviews.
> 
> I think we have enough people to do it if we make
> reviews more of a priority.
> 
> Just my 2 cents :-).

Although I am clearly not anymore a 100% on samba I would like to +1,
basically my only activity is reviews when I have time, and it is ok
with me.

Simo.