lack of reviewers

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:39:55AM +0200, Ernst Sjöstrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (sorry for jumping in from the outside and breaking the thread!)
> 
> I read about this problem and wanted to offer a suggestion!
> 
> What if you set up a Gerrit server for git.freedesktop.org? That's the
> tool the Android OpenSource project uses among other things:
> https://android-review.googlesource.com/
> Perhaps if it was easier to contribute to reviewing code, more people
> would do it more often?

> It's also a very nice tool I have to say, I use it every day at work.
> It's easy to integrate with automatic
> testing of patchsets before they're submitted to the repository for example.

tbh I doubt what we have is a tool problem. Patches are sent to the list and
can be reviewed quite easily there (for subscribers, anyway). The issue we
have is manpower and, more importantly, manpower of people with enough
knowledge to judge whether a patchset has side-effects beyond the obvious.

in the end, such patches tend fall on the shoulders of a few and adding
another tool that they have to check will increase, not decrease, the
workload for those.

Cheers,
  Peter