Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

[hasufell]

On 04/17/2015 01:00 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:33:06 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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>> On 15/04/15 15:02, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>> the threshold to become a developer with write access to the
>>> gentoo repo is very high
>> LOL. No. It's way too low, given our review-less workflow in which any
>> dev can do essentially whatever they want.
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> The only net results from strict review workflow (when each commit
> of each dev must be reviewed and approved by at least N devs) are
> tons of bikeshedding, real quality improvement is marginal, because
> people are working in different areas anyway. And if you will
> consider, that strict review will require N more times effort and
> spent time, actual quality of the tree will drop almost N times,
> because number of man hours spent on Gentoo is approximately
> constant with the same number of devs.

If you have followed the recent discussions about gentoos organizational
structure, review workflow and overlay situation you would know that
there is a pretty simple solution for this problem.

Review workflow will not be random/global. Some gentoo projects already
have strict review workflow. You just have to map this properly to the
tree. If you do that improperly, then ofc it will be crap.