lack of reviewers

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:39:55AM +0200, Ernst Sjöstrand wrote:
> What if you set up a Gerrit server for git.freedesktop.org?

When you have a social problem and try to handle it with technology,
you end up with two problems.  There has been no specific grumblings
against the review methodology.

Part of the review problem is due to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
People reaching the "competent enough" point to do pertinent reviews
don't think they're at that point.  And part stems from technical
difficulties regarding building and testing Mesa, which a whatever
server won't solve.  And a last part is that, as far as I can tell,
the main reviewers are paid to do what they do, and nowadays that
means spending way more time in meetings, reports and other fluff than
anything they consider actual work.  So when they have time for actual
work, they'd rather spend their time in their code and their project
than other people's.

Best,

  OG.