On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:41:02PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > j...@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") writes: > > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 11:31 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > > > >> Ah, but the thing is, what was proposed wasn't "totally evilly > >> draconian." > >> > >> There's a difference between: > >> > >> "You haven't reviewed any patches - we'll ignore you forever!" > >> > >> and > >> > >> "Since you haven't reviewed any patches, we are compelled to > >> defer your patches until the next CommitFest." > >> > >> It's enough pain to make people think, but it's not *totally* > >> punitive. > > > > It is important to remember we are all volunteers here. Any > > increase to the barrier of contribution is a bad one. > > But this *isn't* a barrier to contribution, at least not notably > more than the already existant issue that a paucity of reviewers is > a barrier to contribution. > > It represents a policy for triaging review efforts with a bias in > favor of those that *are* contributing to the reviewers' list. > > I don't think it's unjust for those that contribute to the review > process to get more favorable scheduling of reviews to their > patches. > > If we get so many reviewers that such triaging becomes unnecessary, > then it may automatically *not* be a problem.
In the PostgreSQL Weekly News, I track patches, and apparently at least one person reads that section. Would it be helpful to track reviews somehow during commitfests with the reviewers' names prominently attached? It's a more positive approach, and like many others, I really prefer those types of approaches, even if I grump occasionally. :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers