Where should project Weston go?

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 10 December 2014 at 23:21, Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>
wrote:

> One thing I've observed as a contributor and reviewer is that while we
> think of wayland as a "review + gatekeeper" model, many times the
> gatekeeper is the only one to give the review.  I think strengthening on
> the review side might help ease the gatekeeping workload.
>

Nail -> head.


> An idea I've been kicking around would be to *require* Reviewed-by on
> all patches.  Now, you'd probably think this would *slow* things down,
> but consider this:  If as a patch submitter I know I have to get
> someone's review, then I'm going to be more motivated to give other
> people reviews myself.  I will also find that by making my patches
> easier to review, they'll get a Reviewed-by faster, and thus will land
> faster.
>
> Of course, we wouldn't want to impose the work of checking Reviewed-by's
> on the gatekeeper; our goal is to simplify their workflow not add more
> to it.  Ideally patchwork would have a mode to "show only reviewed
> patches" and let it do the filtering.  Unfortunately it doesn't have
> that capability (yet?), but we could abuse the State field to track it
> manually.
>

Right. The gatekeeper merging is really adding an implicit Reviewed-by. So
if we farm out the review task better than we have been (and I know I've
not been doing my fair share), hopefully everyone's lives will improve a
bit.

Cheers,
Daniel
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