Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 06:17 +0200, Mark wrote:
>   
>> I would encourage Rob / Daniel to try to make
>> time to review the changes please so that the branch could be merged
>> while it's relatively fresh :-)
>>     
> I need to know what I'm reviewing.
>
> Rob suggested that it'd be better in the long-term to review in smaller
> chunks, but you're saying that it'll be easier to review the whole thing
> in one go.
>   
Rob is definitely right in one way, as it's a rather unwieldy task all
as one big review; I tried to address that difference, keeping it as the
one branch for compatibility, while making manageable feature-oriented
sub-tasks of the review; I'd suggest reviewing overview/glade/misc
first, then the individual  features in whatever order seems
appropriate, such as chronological favicon - search - save -
customization - theme; clearly there's a minor difficulty in that the
changes to gtk_scaffolding.c are really linked to virtually every
branch; hopefully we are capable of coping :-)

as far as compatibility is relevant, the way I see it is that it was a
relatively large rather delicate task trying to merge the branches; not
to speak of the additional work involving the team to correct merge
errors involving amiga/riscos; so although the fact that I have already
merged the branches should allow me to re-merge them after individual
review without enormous amounts of additional work, there is definitely
repetition in it, plus it adds to the work of more people than me, in
checking / repatching amiga/riscos/beos; then there's the question of
the changes that a merger induces needing a review of its own; possibly
as much as one more review per branch, the changes that customization /
theming brought to the structure of gtk_scaffolding.c being so major; so
as I say, really we're looking at up to 3 times the work reviewing the
branches in their original state compared to reviewing them as
sub-features from the main branch
> I will say that I can't do any more than a style and
> cursory-obvious-issues review if it's all in one block, but I *am*
> prepared to do that. However since no decision was made yesterday I
> didn't get anything done yesterday and I won't have time until I'm in
> Spain now.
>
> Rob: I think you're going to have to do the first pass review here.
> Sorry.
>
> D.
>   
Well let's keep it under advisement; perhaps whoever finds time first
could do so?

Best regards

Mark

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