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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Code Review Systems Was: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan & schedule
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:46:24
Message-Id: 20150705184610.GB18048@linux1
In Reply to: Re: Code Review Systems Was: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan & schedule by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 09:05:59AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:20:23 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote:
3 > > It's important that the review flow is well-understood and efficient.
4 >
5 > This is impossible in our case due to the lack of manpower.
6 > We already have a lot of bugs, patches, stabilization requests
7 > hanging over there for months and even years. Stabilization request
8 > will require at least two developers to participate in each commit.
9 > This will double manpower required at least. Such approach can kill
10 > the whole project.
11
12 Agreed. Forcing all commits from developers to go through a code review
13 from another developer before they hit the tree would potentially
14 kill the entire project. I would strongly veto something like this,
15 because we flat out don't have the manpower to keep up with it.
16
17 > Code review is good at a limited scope, e.g. for non-developers
18 > where we have review anyway.
19
20 Agreed; I could see something like this being beneficial.
21
22 William

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