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On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:02:43AM +0200, David Tardon wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:51:25AM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
So -- people with commit rights are not the issue:
- can commit directly to master on their own responsibility
  (this should be discouraged, except for urgent buildbreaker fixes that save
   everyone pain)

Do I see the beginning of some "CWS" process here? Anyway, if the
objective is to avoid build problems, then I think it is completely
misplaced, because:

* no amount of reviewing is going to cover all the configurations people
  build with
* most of build problems are on Windows and MacOS X and we do not have
  enough people there (c.f. the recent threads regarding testing of
  feature/gbuild_*)
* we already have tinderboxes for exactly that reason

A build breaker causes 10-20 times the ressources if it is found after hitting
master compared to when it is found before that. Thats because 10-20 devs will:
- have their build break
- check how they broke it
- find out they didnt break it
- find the real breaker
- try to fix it
- find (or coordinate) with others who fix it too (two different fixes for the
  same issue are likely bad too)

Why not, if it is not mandatory... But I, for one, am not expecting any
spectacular results.

I dont expect spectacular results. I expect a lot more visibility on what is
going on in a particular area of code and better early "collision detection"
between larger efforts. And it makes changes more transparent for newcomers.
Around the Hackfest I heard multiple reports by casual volunteers that they
can not follow the dev-list as it is too much traffic, too much noise. Gerrit
might give you a more specific overview on what is happening in the area of
your interest.

  about it (in which care it is sane to hold back until this is clarified)

- if you want to be faster, team up with someone for mutual review and you can
  be as fast as you want

I do not think it is a good idea to start to do that for master commits
wholesale. We have hardly enough people to review fixes for stable
branches.

Caolan is our top commiter. According to
http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2012/05/20/8000-commits/ his last 1000 commits
where at ~6 commits/day. Do you think it would take more than 10 minutes to
skim over 6 commits, if they are presented in an easy accessable way? I dont
think so.

Best,

Bjoern

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