On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:03 PM Ethan Smith <et...@ethanhs.me> wrote:
>
> As a non-committer, I want to make a plea for non-committer approval reviews, 
> or at least that they have a place. When asked how outsiders can contribute I 
> frequently see "review open PRs" as a suggested way of contributing to 
> CPython. Not being able to approve PRs that are good would be a barrier to 
> those contributions.
>
> Furthermore, I am collaborating with a couple of core devs, it would make 
> collaboration more difficult if I couldn't review their work and say that I 
> thought the changes looked good.
>

You can still write a review comment, including "LGTM". What you can
not is labeling PR as "Approved."
So I don't think it makes collaboration difficult.
By preventing approval from others, we can easily find PRs approved
from core-devs or triage members but not merged yet.

> I know "drive by approvals" are annoying but I think it is unfortunately part 
> of open source projects.
>

Sorry, but I don't think so.

-- 
Inada Naoki  <songofaca...@gmail.com>
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