Hello Dominique,

Excerpt from Dominique Pellé:

> John Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:
>>> As a maintainer of a few runtime files, I have something to
>>> make sure of: Are there any changes for the current
>>> maintainers in what they observe--policy, obligations, or
>>> something similar to those, to maintain the runtime files
>>> they are in charge of?
>>
>> Nothing is definite, but I don't think so. What would be
>> different (I think) is that a maintainer would send updates to
>> someone or something other than Bram. The group maintainers
>> would review the change and periodically notify Bram that
>> updates were available. He would then incorporate them into the
>> Vim distribution, presumably after his own review.
>>
>> John
> 
> Does anybody know if there is something that can easily be
> set up for code reviews?  

I use tortoisehg for that.
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/


> I would like to be able to comment
> on checkins in a more formal way than emails.

How exactly would that work?
The more sophisticated the tools get the higher the bar for participants. Email
is a low level tool which is plus.
By separating communication channels we could end up where we started.

> I've personally used Crucible
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/overview
> and I found that such code reviews help to catch errors, improve code quality,
> learn from others comments and improve awareness of changes happening in
> the source tree.

I fully agree to this.

> I'm not saying that we should use crucible (it's not free) but
> something similar.
> 
> In this page http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted
> I read "Source subtab -- You can elect to have non-project members
> review your code."
> I wonder whether this is enabled for the vim project and whether it's the
> kind of review that Crucible offers.
> 
> Ideally, it should add zero burden to checkins and any checkin could be
> automatically reviewed.

I leave it to those who actually will have commit access to the repo to decide
which tools they use and how they want their workflow.

> 
> Regards
> -- Dominique
> 

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