Hi Tomek,

You missed that rule:

* If one person approves a PR and no other reviews or objections after a
week, the person who approved the PR can assume a "lazy consensus" and go
ahead and merge.

BR,

Alan

On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote:

> Hello world :-)
>
> We have long discussions over the last months NuttX code quality and
> self-compatibility degradation. I think open discussion in this area
> as for 2025Q1 can be constructive. Please join the discussion :-)
>
> After we have a good understanding and agreement on selected points we
> should update Contributing Guidelines both for developers and
> reviewers.
>
> * Each PR _must_ adhere to requirements presented in Contributing
> Guidelines or be auto-rejected, that is present what this change does,
> why it is necessary, what if fixes and how, what is the impact, how it
> was tested (build and runtime test logs mandatory!!).
> * Number of required code reviews should be increased from 2 to 4.
> This will ensure cross-checks and filter out faulty changes.
> * Reviews should come from independent organizations.
> * Single company commit, review, merge is not allowed.
> * Self commited code merge is not allowed.
> * Each commit message must adhere to above (i.e. mandatory and
> self-explanatory topic and body with description, both topic and
> description are mandatory, may be simple single sentence or bullet
> points) or it will be auto-rejected. Simple changes require simple
> description, complex changes more, potentially breaking changes or big
> changes require solid proof nothing gets broken.
> * Both PR description _and_ commit messages are important especially
> in case of problems. If something gets broken we will be able to
> understand what was the goal of change.. or just by reading the git
> log to know what changed why and how. Verification logs may be part of
> PR only as these will be too long for git log.
> * If change touches Build / Kernel / Architecture it must be presented
> and discussed on the mailing list with the community first. PR may be
> created with clear indication it is for discussion and marked as draft
> not to be "accidentally merged".
> * If change touches Build / Kernel / Architecture then build and
> runtime test (i.e. apps/ostest) logs from developer working on a real
> world hardware are mandatory!
> * If change touches Build / Kernel / Architecture build and qemu is
> not enough as it does not catch all problems visible on real world
> hardware as we saw recently.
> * We should implement zero trust approach to user provided testing.
> * It is commit author to provide real world hardware build and runtime
> logs that change does not break stuff.
>
> Also it will be nice to have monthly online meetings just to talk
> things over and stay connected and synchronized. It should bring
> community closer together :-)
>
> There were also other nice ideas, please join the discussion :-)
>
> Tomek
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>

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