Bruce Momjian wrote: > In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review > patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that".
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Would it inspire more people to learn enough to become patch reviewers if patch authors scheduled walkthroughs of their patches with question and answer sessions over IRC or maybe even some voice conferencing system like skype? While it might not be of immediate value, I imagine a number of inspiring-to-be-hackers might find such walkthroughs enlightening, and if actual qualified reviewers participate in the Q&A during those walkthroughs seeing the kinds of questions raised would be quite educational as well. I don't know if this would help - I guess it needs 3 things: patch authors willing to do such walkthroughs, qualified people willing to participate in them, and enough wannabe hackers wanting to listen in. Do people think this would help- or is it just a clunkier way of doing what's already done via email on the patches list? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
