[pulseaudio-discuss] Rethinking how we do reviews

Arun Raghavan arun at accosted.net
Thu Mar 31 05:29:35 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 13:42 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 28.03.2016 12:13, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > 
> > Our current way of doing things is good for keeping up code quality,
> > but I think over time, with such a large patch backlog, we end up
> > spending more and more time performing reviews, and less and less time
> > working on features. This becomes quite draining and drops our overall
> > productivity in contributing to the project.
> I think it is in our interests to think how to get these features, where 
> possible, without reviewing too many patches and without sacrificing the 
> code quality of PulseAudio. That includes encouraging our contributors 
> to implement features externally to PulseAudio if it is easier. And an 
> external module SDK would also be a step forward.

I think there's still enough stuff that belongs in PulseAudio that we
need to deal with this problem internally anyway.

-- Arun


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