Good points Andrea. I agree, up until this point there has been no 
formal rules about review, yet certain practices and conventions have 
been evolving. I will throw up what I think the current practices have 
become and throw them into a GSIP when I get a chance.

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>> Simone Giannecchini wrote:
>>> .... and more should be on its way :-)
>>>
>>> I am not against this sort of babysitting, especially becausue the
>>> longer the document is the worse my english gets towards the end.
>>> Nevertheless I have to admit that lately I feel like I have to ask
>>> permission to even do my own work. I hope this is just an impression.
>> I think your impression is correct, although misphrased. No one wants 
>> to be the overseer or have the right to give the OK of what gets done. 
>> Just the right to do code review which results in much higher quality 
>> work.
> 
> Justin,
> I know you're big on reviews and I agree they do make for higher
> quality.
> 
> Some projects, like OL, have established rules where each commit
> has to be reviewed by at least two other committers, or stuff like
> that.
> 
> I don't disagree going down that path, but imho that requires a GSIP
> that is voted unanimously. It also requires a change of mind in
> how promptly reviews are done (having someone stuck for weeks
> or more is not good), maybe establishing a window for reviews,
> and have the patch land in case of no review (just like we do
> for IP in GeoTools, to avoid someone get stuck due to lack of
> interest).
> 
> Given that GoeServer lacks formal module ownership we should also
> either establish some or decide that any committer that feels
> entitled to review can.
> 
> Anyways, despite the form, such governance rules should be
> described and voted in a GSIP imho
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 


-- 
Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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