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Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:45:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
- References: <4A2E8528.8090604@starynkevitch.net>
Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> I am unfortunately not attending the GCC summit which happens right now
> in Montreal.
>
> But apparently, there seems to be a lack of code reviewers for GCC. The
> few people who do review code seems to have a lot of review in their
> batch queue.
>
> Perhaps could be discussed at the summit some way to increase the set of
> reviewers, i.e. the set of people able to say Ok to a patch submitted on
> gcc-patches@
As I understand it, the set of reviewers allowed to say OK to a patch is
limited to the set of people capable of reviewing these patches. That is,
there is a limited set of people with enough real knowledge of gcc to
approve a patch. Adding people who do not really understand gcc will
not help.
Andrew.