On Thursday 2003-09-18 10:18 +0000, Michael Lefevre wrote: > FWIW, I've seen Ken bugging a variety of people on IRC on several > occasions recently. The result has been a variety of core developers > agreeing that there is nobody suitable to look at those patches, and that > the situation sucks.
The patches really didn't require any specific knowledge of the postscript module. And, given the lack of an owner for the module, I think super-reviewers would accept any reasonable reviewers. Or something like that, anyway. Don't take that as a statement of policy, though. > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, L. David Baron wrote: > > Maybe we should have a mailing list for new contributors who are having > > trouble getting reviews, or something like that. It could have a bunch > > of core developers who are willing to step in, and at least find the > > right reviewers. > > Not that I have any serious involvement in this stuff, but I don't see a > new mailing list is going to help... which core developers willing to step > in would be on the list that aren't already reading the newsgroup and/or > on IRC? IRC isn't as good a method of reaching people as you might think. I certainly didn't know anything about this before this thread. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
