Re: Commitfest process

Andrew Chernow wrote:
>
>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> The main point of my proposal is: let's make the *authors* who want 
>> their stuff to be reviewed as part of a commitfest do the extra work. 
>> There would be no extra work required for patch reviewers.
>>
>
> I think this makes the most sense.  It distributes the work to authors 
> who know the most about the patch/feature and have probably followed 
> all discussions related to it.  Updating a wiki or something similar 
> is a brainless activity.

We are making much too big a deal of not very much here. AIUI a 
commitfest just involves a change in priority of tasks, mainly by 
committers, but also to some extent by other developers capable of doing 
reviews.

As for making authors do extra work: good luck with that.

In any case - ideally there shouldn't be any extra work.

If someone wants to turn the patch list into something more 
reader-friendly, then that's a separate issue, really, quite apart from 
the commitfest. I rather liked the wiki page that Stefan Kaltenbrunner 
maintained for 8.4 features - it provided quite a good overview of where 
we were.

cheers

andrew