Re: [win-pv-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/6] Add Code Review Guide

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28.11.2019 01:54, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This document highlights what reviewers such as maintainers and committers 
>> look
>> for when reviewing code. It sets expectations for code authors and provides
>> a framework for code reviewers.
> 
> I think the document is missing a couple of things:
> 
> - a simple one line statement that possibly the most important thing in
>   a code review is to indentify any bugs in the code
> 
> - an explanation that requests for major changes to the series should be
>   made early on (i.e. let's not change the architecture of a feature at
>   v9 if possible) I also made this comment in reply to patch #5. I'll
>   let you decide where is the best place for it.

This needs balancing. People crucial to the evaluation of a new
feature and its implementation simply may not have the time to
reply prior to v9. We've had situations where people posted new
revisions every other day, sometimes even more than one per day.

As indicated in several other contexts before - imo people not
helping to shoulder the review load should also not have the
expectation that their (large) contributions will be looked at
in due course. 

Jan

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