Re: next CommitFest

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:41:02PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 11:31 -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, but the thing is, what was proposed wasn't "totally evilly
> >> draconian."
> >> 
> >> There's a difference between:
> >> 
> >>  "You haven't reviewed any patches - we'll ignore you forever!"
> >> 
> >> and
> >> 
> >>  "Since you haven't reviewed any patches, we are compelled to
> >>  defer your patches until the next CommitFest."
> >> 
> >> It's enough pain to make people think, but it's not *totally*
> >> punitive.
> >
> > It is important to remember we are all volunteers here. Any
> > increase to the barrier of contribution is a bad one.
> 
> But this *isn't* a barrier to contribution, at least not notably
> more than the already existant issue that a paucity of reviewers is
> a barrier to contribution.
> 
> It represents a policy for triaging review efforts with a bias in
> favor of those that *are* contributing to the reviewers' list.
> 
> I don't think it's unjust for those that contribute to the review
> process to get more favorable scheduling of reviews to their
> patches.
> 
> If we get so many reviewers that such triaging becomes unnecessary,
> then it may automatically *not* be a problem.

In the PostgreSQL Weekly News, I track patches, and apparently at
least one person reads that section.  Would it be helpful to track
reviews somehow during commitfests with the reviewers' names
prominently attached?

It's a more positive approach, and like many others, I really prefer
those types of approaches, even if I grump occasionally. :)

Cheers,
David.
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