On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:25:03 +0800
Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 July 2015 13:46:10 William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 09:05:59AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > > On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:20:23 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > > It's important that the review flow is well-understood and
> > > > efficient.
> > > 
> > > This is impossible in our case due to the lack of manpower.
> > > We already have a lot of bugs, patches, stabilization requests
> > > hanging over there for months and even years. Stabilization
> > > request will require at least two developers to participate in
> > > each commit. This will double manpower required at least. Such
> > > approach can kill the whole project.
> > 
> > Agreed. Forcing all commits from developers to go through a code
> > review from another developer before they hit the tree would
> > potentially kill the entire project. I would strongly veto
> > something like this, because we flat out don't have the manpower to
> > keep up with it.
> > 
> ... or you have some pranksters just ok-ing all commits during their
> morning coffee, independent of content, which would keep things
> working at the cost of quality ...

Spoken like someone who's never used a code review system. Pranksters
can no more "ok all commits" than they can "commit whatever they
like", since you treat giving +2 permissions like you treat giving push
access.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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