On Friday 2018-04-20 14:23 -0700, Kris Maglione wrote:
> For a lot of these patches, my opinion is only really critical for certain
> architectural aspects, or implementation aspects at a few critical points.
> There are other reviewers who are perfectly qualified to do a more detailed
> review of the specifics of the patch, and have more spare cycles to devote
> to it. Essentially, what's needed from me in these cases is a super-review,
> which I can do fairly easily, but instead I become a bottleneck for the code
> review as well.
> 
> So, for the areas where I have this responsibility, I'd like to institute a
> policy that certain types of changes need a final super-review from me, but
> should get a detailed code review from another qualified reviewer when that
> makes sense.

I think it's reasonable to use the super-review flag for this sort
of high-level or design review, at least until we come up with a
better name for it (and make a new flag, and retire the old one).  I
don't think the super-review policy (as written) is meaningful
today.

-David

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