Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> At the human level I suspect it would help to have people who watch for 
> submissions from non-regulars (including those attached to Bugzilla) and 
> help them prepare patches following all the usual conventions and get them 
> reviewed (checking for copyright assignments at an early stage as needed) 
> and make sure the submissions don't get lost.  At the technical level, 
> while submissions on gcc-patches take a wide variety of forms, approvals 
> are more restricted; it ought to be possible for software to do a 
> reasonably good job of tracking which submissions have been reviewed / 
> approved / committed (including noticing people trying to submit patches 
> through Bugzilla), and of identifying the most likely relevant maintainers 
> to review patches, aided by humans in keeping the data clean.

I agree, and I think it is in fact precisely at this step where a
distributed version control system can be most helpful.  But I'm not
going to belabor the point.

Ian