review process (was: C++ PATCH: Unify name lookup 2/n)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Mar-2003, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>:
> > However, a point remains: We need a better process than we currently has.
> 
> I'm not going to disagree; process can always be improved.

Here are some possible suggestions (I'm just brain-storming here):

	- appoint more C++ maintainers (e.g. would it be appropriate
	  to make Gabriel Dos Reis a maintainer for the C++ front-end)?

	- define a new category of "self-approve" developers?
	  These developers would be permitted to approve their own patches
	  in particular areas.  This could be qualified further, e.g. by
	  requiring that the patch be reviewed by at least one
	  other person (though the other person need not be
	  an official maintainer), and/or that the patch not be
	  committed until a week after it had been posted to gcc-patches.

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