Re: Loosening Quotient review requirements

Duncan McGreggor <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:49:51 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.quotient.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+1 for continued development on Quotient by any means practical for you.
If you're the only developer, I think it makes perfect sense for you to
do self-reviews and for that to be sufficient for a merge to trunk.

d

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'd like to hear what people think about removing mandatory reviews from 
> the Divmod Quotient development process.
> 
> At this point, I think I'm the only person interested enough in Quotient 
> to work on it.  This makes it hard to get anything done with the normal 
> development workflow.  I've gotten a little help on very small fixes so 
> far (thanks faldridge!) but I don't really expect this to continue, or 
> keep up with the pace of development I'd like to see.
> 
> The development process for all the rest of the Divmod projects would 
> remain the same (at least for now).  I would do self-reviews and 
> continue to seek out a high level of quality in the code.
> 
> This would only apply to me, since I seem to be the only developer.  If 
> someone else shows up, then the problem goes away and we can resume 
> reviews.
> 
> The alternative isn't very different.  There are things in Quotient I 
> really want to fix; if reviews remain required and no reviewers are 
> available, then I'll end up with a de facto fork of Quotient, also with 
> no independent code review.  It would be simpler if I could avoid such a 
> fork.
> 
> I expect most people on this don't really care about Quotient, but I'd 
> like to hear from the two or three people who might have some interest, 
> now or in the future.
> 
> Jean-Paul
> 
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