Re: Commitfest problems

On 12/12/14, 1:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 1. We don't need a full-time engineer to manage a commitfest. We need a manager or PM.

I don't think that's actually true. The major points on this thread are that 1) we don't have enough capacity for doing
reviewsand 2) the CFM has no authority to enforce anything.
 

I see no way that #2 can be addressed by a mere manager/PM. If three *very* senior community members (David, Josh and
Robert)couldn't get this done there's no way a PM could. (Well, I suppose of Tom was standing behind them with a
flamingsword it might work...)
 

Even so, this still wouldn't address the real problem, which is lack of review capacity.

FWIW, I faced the same problem at Enova: good, solid reviews were very important for maintaining the quality of the
dataand database code, yet were a constant source of pain and friction. And that was with people being paid to do them,
aswell as a very extensive set of unit tests.
 

In other words, this isn't an easy problem to solve.

One thing that I think would help is modifying the CF app to allow for multiple reviewers. IIRC I reviewed 4 or 5
patchesbut I didn't mark myself as reviewer of any of them because I don't feel I have enough knowledge to fulfill that
role.
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