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Re: review process
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Cc: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:46:34 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: review process
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>>> - define a new category of "self-approve" developers?
> Well, the difference is that you're only allowed to approve your own
> patches, not someone else's patches. The intent here is to create
> a new position which is less trusted than a normal "maintainer",
> and whose approval powers are thus significantly limited --
> limited to only approving their own patches, only after these patches
> have been reviewed by another human, and only after a one-week delay.
So, wouldn't it be more natural, in some way, to have maintainers that
may approve all patches _but_ their own? (I'm not sure how well reviews
by arbitrary third parties would work, both procedurally and related to
quality.)
Managing droped patches using Bugzilla sounds like a good idea, and in
fact I have suggested it at least twice in the past.
My message at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-03/msg01529.html essentially
has all three suggestions which came up in this thread, BTW. :->
Gerald
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