Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Kasting
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Zoltan Herczeg zherc...@inf.u-szeged.huwrote: It's also a big help when peers (which aren't necessarily WebKit reviewers) look over it and give review-style feedback as well. Especially when said peers know more about that code than any of the official

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Milowski
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:17 PM, David Hyatt hy...@apple.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Adam Barth wrote:  (1) The patch needs to be reviewed by David Hyatt.   David Hyatt appears to be a bottleneck in the project because he's an expert on a number of components that no one else

[webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread Adam Barth
Over the past 24 hours, I've been aggressively reviewing patches in pending-review http://webkit.org/pending-review that have been sitting around for over a month. My approach as been to review the patches in order from oldest to newest with a the buck stops here perspective. That means I'm

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread David Hyatt
On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Adam Barth wrote: (1) The patch needs to be reviewed by David Hyatt. David Hyatt appears to be a bottleneck in the project because he's an expert on a number of components that no one else understands as well but he doesn't spend as much time reviewing

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread David Levin
(3) Someone reviewed an earlier version of the patch but then didn't follow up. I think having a partial review by one person encourages other people to assume that person will finish the review. That cause the patch to float upwards in pending-review until it gets lost in the sea of

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Orlow
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 PM, David Levin le...@chromium.org wrote: (3) Someone reviewed an earlier version of the patch but then didn't follow up. I think having a partial review by one person encourages other people to assume that person will finish the review. That cause the patch to

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Adam Barth aba...@webkit.org wrote: Q: Why are you doing this? You should stick to reviewing code in your own area. A: The pending-review queue is out of control. It's past the tipping point where there are too many patches for someone to reasonably look at

Re: [webkit-dev] Why I'm reviewing patches outside my area (and why you should too)

2010-03-09 Thread Zoltan Herczeg
Hi, It's also a big help when peers (which aren't necessarily WebKit reviewers) look over it and give review-style feedback as well. Especially when said peers know more about that code than any of the official reviewers. Is that really help? Sometimes when a patch looks good to me, it