On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:

> If I was to try to make the plural of anecdote be data.... then I
> would characterize these people as busy sysadmins who aren't spending
> their days writing lots of Ruby, aren't particularly interested in
> doing code reviews, but are interested in helping shape the
> development of the product at a higher conceptual level.

I'm pretty firmly planted in this demographic bucket but I don't mind the code 
at all. It's easy enough to delete if its a giant batch of patches that I can't 
contextualise; at the very least the commit message at the top lets me know 
what wisdom might be gleaned further below. 

Two things that might help:
1. if rake mail-patches included a url to github (or some hypthetical web-based 
review tool), you could easily flip over to get context.
2. i just found out about the 'abridged mail' option on google groups, which 
sends a very useful, compact hyperlinked summary of threads and posts in each 
one; if people are really busy but just want to keep a finger on the pulse this 
is a super way to do it. 


 - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738  - http://twitter.com/ahpook  -

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