Kaldari, Juliusz, and Max

What's been your experience with this?

--tomasz

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> We introduced a pre-review hook in mobile that makes it hard for you
> to submit new code when there is existing code to review (check out
> [1] if you are interested)
>
> The problem I find is it tells _me_ to do code review, but all the
> patches belong to me so I can't review them. I can poke people and ask
> them to review it, but this usually isn't fruitful as it results in
> "I'll do that later" or "I'm busy right now".
>
> I feel that the pre-review hook is making me aware of other people's
> patches more often but I've had to force override it a few times like
> just now when I've found that I own all the existing patches (as I'm
> scared I'll lose the patch or forget about the patch otherwise). This
> actually has had the effect on me of investing time in other projects
> like data analysis, mailing list discussions, coding on VectorBeta,
> Limn and core rather than concentrating my energy on MobileFrontend. I
> also feel reluctant to pick up new cards to work on when I'm in this
> limbo state as I don't want to overwhelm the code review queue or end
> up managing various patches that might conflict with each other.
>
> I feel like I've contributed less to the MobileFrontend project as a
> result - not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. That said it is
> certainly a frustrating thing for me as I want to work on it more...
>
> Something to think about.
>
> [1] 
> http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend/f73209dc946d306357ed6dff90c0a9ad1de0c263/scripts%2Fpre-review
>
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