On Thu, 19 May 2016, Donald Sharp wrote:
The point of all of this wasn't about Cumulus or not. We've had
multiple people state that the process takes too long multiple times
recently. The point was that patches are piling up across the
*community* at a rate greater than they are even being looked at. I
see no way that we can reach unanimity for every patch. Nor do I see
any advantage to 2 month long arguments about issues. I would like a
process where we can resolve issues at a faster rate.
Note, there's a few different things being conflated.
- Review resources
- Integration resources and processes
- Willingness of contributors to engage with reviews and address issues
- "resolve issues at a faster rate", by which you really mean "Ignore
having to address the former".
On unanimity, I disagree with you. If we regularly have patches being
pushed through by the vote of the 51+% of contributors over objections
of others, we're going to run into really deep problems working
togehter.
We'd be much better working hard at engaging and trying to keep each
other happy, than trying to come up with simple majority voting
structures.
Also, there can be some issues I simply am not prepared to devolve to
simple majority votes. There are some things that are red-lines for me.
I can well accept that others have red-lines too, and in general try to
respect that (do you know how many patches I never got in? :) ).
Unanimous agreement on inclusion (or rollback to a last 'good' state in
some edge cases) is the only way to accommodate that.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma [email protected] @pjakma Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
-Samuel Goldwyn
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