On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:56:02PM +0000, Soft Works wrote:
> ... A significant part of code reviews are code-style violations. This is
> really not something where humans should need to spend time for when 
> reviewing a patch.

you are correct but that is also the easy part of reviews.
Its not what makes reviews time consuming.
Rather while reviewing for technical stuff one notices maybe a formating
issue


> Neither should it be required that Michael responds manually each time 
> by stating "breaks FATE".

We already have fully automatic build and fate tests for submitted patches
its done by patchwork which should send a private mail to the submitter of
a patch affected.

Still not every environment is the same, and it passing on the patchwork
box doesnt mean it builds on my mingw or mips environments for example.

thx

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