I think specifying the reviewer's responsibility in the description/message
is a good start.  It might also help when requesting specific feedback about
design details as opposed to checking code style.
Andrew

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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