Hi,
it speeds up the development - do not fear and go ahead. People do
usually  distinguish between small patch and big change - they will
break something only sometimes :-) 

Jachym

Christopher Schmidt píše v Pá 14. 12. 2007 v 07:52 -0500:
> I'm beginning to think I was a bit overzealous in stating that all
> patches should require an external review. I've been watching OpenLayers
> development lately, and although I agree that in principle, code review
> is a good thing, I think that it has seriously hamstrung the project
> over the past couple months, due to lack of development time from a few
> core committers who were able to help move things forward in the past.
> 
> Getting more core committers is one helpful step in the right direction,
> but it doesn't completely solve the problem: we're still blocking on
> very simple (one line) patches due to lack of review.
> 
> I'd like to float the idea of allowing commits to trunk without review
> at the discrestion of the patch author. We've got really great
> committers, and I think we have the ability to decide when things
> should/shouldn't go in without a review on every patch.
> 
> That said, when API functionality is involved, I think more thna one
> person should be able to comment before it goes into trunk. So, I think
> that any patch which adds new APIMethods or APIProperties should
> probably be opened as a ticket, and comments should be sought on it
> before it goes into trunk. Additionally, we should be more proactive in
> discussing things both in tickets nd on the mailing lists when there is
> a suggestion in API change.
> 
> How do other people feel about this? I don't want to continue to see one
> line patches left open for 6 months due to lack of review.
> 
> Regards,
-- 
Jachym Cepicky
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