Re: Development practices?

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 05:34:45PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 09.09.2015 20:47, Felix Zielcke пишет:
> >Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2015, 13:57 -0400 schrieb Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
> >>On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:34:29PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> >>wrote:
> >
> >>I don't know enough about the community (or the history) to
> >>>understand it but would very much appreciate input.
> >>>And if I have offended somebody with my questions + feeble
> >>>analysis: my deepest apologies - and please straighten me out!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From what I have gathered so far the not enough reviewers
> >>>is tied in folks being overworked - so there simply was no
> >>>point of posting on the mailing list as nobody had the time
> >>>to review it or test it properly?
> >>>
> >
> >Hi Konrad,
> >
> >back in 2008/2009 (when Marco Gerards gave over Maintainance to Robert
> >Millan) there were indeed not much people actively reviewing code.
> >
> >Active people on the mailing list was just given commit access. It was
> >expected that they only commit stuff without posting which doesn't need
> >a review and complies with the rules back at that time.
> >
> >Due to me missing a few years on the mailing list, I can't tell you
> >unfortunately how it compares to today.
> >
> 
> Not much changes as far as I can tell.

OK.

What qualifies as needing an review? Personal preference by
the patch author?

Thank you for answering my questions!