Changing dbus/dbus-glib review procedure

[Pavel Strashkin]

Hi Simon,

I like your idea, because if you don't have enough time to support it,
project will die or be forked. Actually dbus has a good
commits-per-month counter so i don't afraid :). I also believe there
is a lot of people who can do the job (and want to join to dbus team)
with a necessary quality: just share your ideas, vision, the future of
the project, rules. Be the Yoda ;)

But! You're saying only about dbus/dbus-glib although there are python
binding, perl binding, minor stuffs like "Bug 36233 - Upload Python
binding on PyPI". There are ~241 opened bug/feature/... requests -
from minor/stupid to critical/great. Many are very old like the punch
cards. Somebody should do it. This 36233 is very simple, but it's
still open since 2011-04-14. What i want to say i that you need to
open the doors for volunteers who will do this minor job. You have
time for discussion, to
answer on a mail in the list - you can convert your thoughts to
code/work via other people and after that just review the result and
allow them to commit.

In the nowadays DBus is not a just C code, but the bindings to the
popular languages and community work like an uploading packages to
PyPI.

2011/5/17 Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>:
> People may have noticed that there's a bit of a backlog of fixed bugs
> awaiting review; unfortunately, it seems all the reviewers are busy on other
> things at the moment.
>
> I propose to make these changes to the review procedure:
>
> * Add David Zeuthen (GDBus maintainer) to the list of qualified reviewers.
>  This hopefully shouldn't be controversial; Will Thompson has said he's in
>  favour of this addition too.
>
> * Relax the review requirement for branches written by someone who's also a
>  reviewer: the D-Bus reviewers listed in HACKING may commit branches they
>  wrote themselves, as long as:
>
>  - the change does not add or change API, ABI or wire-protocol
>
>  - there are no objections from the other reviewers listed in HACKING within
>    some reasonable time (1 week?) of the patches being added to Bugzilla
>
>  - the committer gets a positive review on Bugzilla from someone they
>    consider qualified to review that change (not necessarily someone who's
>    a dbus committer yet: for instance, Cosimo Alfarano is working on D-Bus
>    and related packages with me at the moment, and I'd like to treat his
>    reviews as sufficient, at least for things like leak fixes and
>    regression-test improvements)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>    S
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