Re: Community Process Group - Proposal

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 08:34 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 22.01.2024 23:47, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > What definitely needs clarifying is what "review" is: Are R-b tags
> > > counted, or is it the number of replies sent commenting on patches?
> > 
> > Yes, I think this needs to be clarified. I would say Reviewed-by tags.
> 
> Which may end up unfair. It's not uncommon for one person to do a lot
> of review on a patch, and for someone else to then ack the final
> version that goes in. In the end this is then no different from basing
> the decision on simple numbers, without regard to actual (potentially
> heavily differing) effort behind each individual instance.


Perhaps that isn't such a bad thing. It would mean that a hypothetical
reviewer who only ever nitpicks and is holding up progress of a patch
which others find acceptable does not get 'credit' for reviewing that
particular patch.

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