On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:51 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:

> 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.


FWIW I'm pretty sure Phabricator won't support the super-review flag. And
since we're aiming to transition all reviews to Phabricator...
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