Review queue needs continued love

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Jul 26 20:28:28 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hey Rob,
>
>> Have you looked at bzr's patch pilot process? A variant of that is
>> being used by Ubuntu now, and Launchpads review rotation process is
>> similar too in some ways.
>
> Thanks for the reference, I hadn't heard of it before.  It feels a lot
> like Launchpad's rotation process indeed, which might help us.  The
> review hour scheme we had in Landscape also worked well for us at the
> time, and might be another possibility.

They are indeed similar. The key difference is conceptual: the
rotation process ensures a reviewer is available, the pilot process
aims to get patches landed by the reviewer taking on any polish
needed.

-Rob




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