Friday, September 5, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Need more reviewers!

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:03 +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:

> > I don't *want* the rule, I just think we *need* the rule because
> > otherwise sponsors/managers/etc make business decisions to exclude that
> > aspect of the software dev process.
>
> I agree that making sponsors/managers/etc aware of that aspect of the
> dev process is necessary and worthwhile. However, I don't think a rule
> for *patch submitters* helps with that. There must be other ways to
> convince managers to encourage reviewers.

Such as? You might think those arguments exist and work, but I would say
they manifestly do not. Almost all people doing reviews are people that
have considerable control over their own time, or are directed by people
that understand the Postgres review process and wish to contribute to it
for commercial reasons.

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