On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. When a patch author requests more than one reviewer, they should
> make clear in the review request email what they expect the
> responsibility of each reviewer to be. [...]
> 5. If you're on "FYI" person on a review and you didn't actually
> review in detail (or at all), but don't have a problem with the patch,
> note this. You could say something like "rubber stamp" or "ACK"
> instead of "LGTM." This way the real reviewers know not to trust that
> you did their work for them, but the author of the patch knows they
> don't have to wait for further feedback from you.

These are excellent suggestions.

> Hopefully we can still keep everybody in the loop but have clear
> ownership and detailed reviews. It might even speed up some patches
> since I can quickly ACK patches I don't care about, and the patch
> author knows they don't have to wait for feedback from me. Or do you
> think this has too much overhead?
>
> Comments?

I like it.  Explicit flow control is almost always better than waiting
for a timeout to expire :-).

--Amanda

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