Hi, Robert, Francis, and all. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Francis J. Lacoste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I think this is a very worthwhile experiment. I appreciate that you are > bringing a cost/benefit analysis to one of the sacred cow of Launchpad. >
I didn't read Robert's initial proposal as a cost/benefit analysis. He and I talked a bit about this proposal yesterday and viewing in in that light, I'm more +1 than -1 now. There are bits of the proposal and language used to describe the proposal that have me skeptical about it being a positive experiment, but I certainly understand what Robert is after now and support his efforts. To be clear about my skepticism, it's that I think most of our friction over reviews is that we don't have a shared understanding of the purpose of a review or even what code quality means (e.g. some think lint and formatting, others architectural issues, others module or function design, etc.), so I think all this experiment will show us is the number of people who opt out of review. :-) Also, I don't have some great fear of plummeting code quality. We're all responsible adults here. :-) I guess it's more that I worry about inconsistent practices and statements, i.e. "we value peer-reviewed code, but you don't have to do it if you don't want to." I don't mean the above paragraph to take away from my support of Robert's efforts. Just trying to clarify based on the discussion he and I had yesterday. Certainly, I'm game to support this and try it, even if some skepticism remains. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
