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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:56:58PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Does regular merge reviewing (and regular patch reviewing and regular bug > > reviewing) really not happen unless a pumpking does it, or a pumpking gently > > but repeatedly cajoles others to do it? > > I do consider "gentle and repeated cajoling" to be in my job description > ;) But it troubles me somewhat that the bus number of Jesse is one. [Or, in more practical terms, you have other demands on your time, such as cats, wife, cats, company to run, cats, conferences, cats, sleep, cats. At least, I'm sure that's how the cats see it.] And that when the cajoling stops, so does most of the activity. There's little or no breadth here. A lot of people are relying on very few people to actually do the work of reviewing and applying patches, fixing bugs, and organising and making releases. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next