[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] CONTRIBUTING: formalize review rules

Arkadiusz Hiler arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com
Wed Jul 19 08:03:46 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 06:00:20PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> There's a bunch of reasons why I think we should formalize and enforce
> our review rules for igt patches:
> 
> - We have a lot of new engineers joining and review helps enormously
>   with mentoring and learning. But right now only patches from
>   contributors without commit rights are consistently subjected to
>   review, which makes this imbalanced and removes senior contributors
>   from the review pool.
> 
> - We have a much bigger team and we need to make sure we're aligned on
>   where igt as a tool and testsuite needs to head towards. Getting
>   that alignment happens through reviewing each other's submission.
>   Pushing a contentious patch and then dealing with a heated irc
>   discussion is much less effective.
> 
> - Finally igt becomes ever more important for our testing, making sure
>   the code quality is high is important. Review helps with that.
> 
> v2: Improve wording a bit (Imre).
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss at collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> Acked-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Acked-by: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com>

With the recent growth in contributions it's a good thing :-)

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
Arek


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