[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-16 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Anastasia, On 16.05.22 07:15, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > I am also not a native English speaker, and need to always concentrate > on the language. Sometimes I can't understand the person who has just > spoken, in this case I am trying to clarify for example by asking "do > I understand you

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-15 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hello, I am also not a native English speaker, and need to always concentrate on the language. Sometimes I can't understand the person who has just spoken, in this case I am trying to clarify for example by asking "do I understand you correctly, do you mean ABCXYZ?". Also I remember a few times

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-12 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hello Everyone, First of all let's summarize what has happened. Today is May 12. Two months ago (Mar 6) Nico started this thread on the mailing list: "Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules". I recommend everyone [who is interested] re-read the opening email in this thread. It is well written,

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-10 Thread Felix Singer
I am not going to comment on most things of your email, because I think the discussion would be going nowhere. Also, you should know my answer for some things. So there is no point for me in replying. Just one thing.. On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 14:19 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: > > > I would prefer if

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-09 Thread Nico Huber
On 09.05.22 06:31, Felix Singer wrote: > On Sat, 2022-05-07 at 14:39 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: >> On 06.05.22 03:52, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: >>> There are several questions raised in this thread, but good news is >>> that at the meeting yesterday one of the questions was decided on! >>> >>> We

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-08 Thread Felix Singer
On Sat, 2022-05-07 at 14:39 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: > On 06.05.22 03:52, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > > There are several questions raised in this thread, but good news is > > that at the meeting yesterday one of the questions was decided on! > > > > We decided to have a Reviewers group for

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-07 Thread Nico Huber
On 06.05.22 03:52, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > There are several questions raised in this thread, but good news is > that at the meeting yesterday one of the questions was decided on! > > We decided to have a Reviewers group for flashrom. Technically the attendees agreed on it. Which is a kind of

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-05-05 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
There are several questions raised in this thread, but good news is that at the meeting yesterday one of the questions was decided on! We decided to have a Reviewers group for flashrom. Martin, can we ask you to help with creating a group? If you could help that would be great! Initial content

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-26 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hello! > and I vote 100% against it. FWIW, this feature wakes our worst in- > stincts. No matter how convinced we are that review is also for our > own good, getting a commit merged always feels rewarding. And many > people act like it's a necessity to set the resolved tick to gain > that reward.

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-17 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Anastasia, On 17.03.22 12:32, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: >> For example, the flashrom project doesn't require that all comments >> be resolved before merge. That can be enabled if you'd like, but currently >> it isn't. > > Oh this explains! I was wondering where those “patches merged with >

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-17 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
“For example, the flashrom project doesn't require that all comments be resolved before merge. That can be enabled if you'd like, but currently it isn't.” Oh this explains! I was wondering where those “patches merged with unresolved comments” are coming from. I am 100% voting for this setting to

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-13 Thread Greg Troxel
> I've noticed something related in reviews over the years, though. Some- > times when reviewers give a lot of comments on Gerrit, among them some > critical ones about the overall patch and a lot of nits, the author > tends to fix the nits and ignore the critical comments. Sure, when > somebody

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-13 Thread Nico Huber
On 12.03.22 08:57, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: >> The big difference seems to be that at coreboot mergingpatches, i.e. >> hitting the "Submit" button, is more or less consideredan administrative >> task unrelated to one's opinion on the code. Whilefor us it was supposed to >> replace the

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-13 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Anastasia, Martin, many thanks for your thoughts on the matter. \o/ On 12.03.22 22:29, Martin L Roth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:57 AM Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > ... > On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 9:17 AM Nico Huber wrote: > ... >>> “The big difference seems to be that at coreboot

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-12 Thread Martin L Roth
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:57 AM Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: ... On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 9:17 AM Nico Huber wrote: ... >> “The big difference seems to be that at coreboot merging >> patches, i.e. hitting the "Submit" button, is more or less considered >> an administrative task unrelated to one's

[flashrom] Re: Gatekeeping, ACLs and Review Rules

2022-03-11 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Nico, and everyone, Thanks for many details, and for historical information, always interesting for me to read :) *“The big difference seems to be that at coreboot mergingpatches, i.e. hitting the "Submit" button, is more or less consideredan administrative task unrelated to one's opinion