From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Reviewer assignment Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3ahcr8m.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <579027b7.VHXjhpPxQC3AAmeY%pjotr.public12@email> <8760rznoh1.fsf@gnu.org> <20160722004130.GA10340@thebird.nl> <874m7hk6dz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160724033027.GA20236@thebird.nl> <20160724135828.GA6502@solar> <874m7e2kfg.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRnvw-0000AW-86 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:01:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRnvq-0000eM-IE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:01:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874m7e2kfg.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:25:55 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Andy Wingo skribis: > A fully distributed system sounds nice but it has costs too. In my mind > for a project of Guix's target size the best situation would be having > around 100 committers or so who have internalized the coding style and > patterns of Guix so that they can work more or less directly on the > parts they feel comfortable with, posting patches to the list as > necessary for feedback. Agreed. That=E2=80=99s the spirit of the text in =E2=80=98HACKING=E2=80=99. > An incoming patch would be assigned to one of those people based on > automatic tooling. In that way Guix can scale to the next step while > remaining a consistent, hackable project. That sounds like a good approach to me. With the upcoming libgit2 bindings, we could cook up a tool that gives people a list of likely reviewers that submitters could Cc, and suggest it in . Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.