Fedora Core Merge Reviews

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Jun 25 18:31:03 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:19 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Brian Pepple wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One of the items still left to do with regard to the recent merging of
> > Core & Extras is the reviews on packages that previously were in Core.
> > FESCo has been trying to determine what type of goal we should set for
> > completion by F8 test 2.  Most of us felt that it wasn't a reasonable
> > goal to finish them all by that time, since there are more that 700
> > still needing to be completed.
> > 
> > I'm looking for suggestions from the community on what you think is a
> > reasonable number or percentage of reviews to complete by F8t2.
> 
> This depends on whether Red Hat can do reviews of these packages.  Many 
> of us are under the assumption that since the packages came from Red 
> Hat, we ought to let the community review them.

I don't think we need to be that restrictive.  I would say as long as
the maintainer of the package isn't also doing the review, it's fine.

There is no need to segregate reviewers based on employer.  It just
needlessly limits the reviewer pool.

josh




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