pressure cooker on the heat (Re: [development] "I'm disappointed by the freeze")

[Bèr Kessels]

Nice, thanks for your summary:

Op woensdag 22 februari 2006 11:58, schreef Robert Douglass:
>   2) the "pressure cooker" organizes the queue into wheat and chaff.
> When Dries reviews patches, he knows that unless someone trusted has
> promoted it into the pressure cooker, he doesn't need to fool with it
> (he still can if he wants, of course). This will negate the
> "pester-Dries-on-IRC" necessity since any issue in the pressure cooker
> will automatically get his attention. It also galvanizes the community
> around the issues in the pressure cooker since it is clear that those
> are the issues being taken seriously, the ones that are likely to "make
> it".

Here i foresee a problem, one that you might have thought of already: 
 Often patches and fixes are abandoned after a while. I do think that the 
cooker system will greatly reduce that amoutn. But what if suddenly a few 
cooker patches are halted and collect some dust (because there is a FAPI 
thing goign on, for example). Will that queue then not grow into a similar 
messy heap of code as the current queue-that-is-not-a-queue.

Bèr 

ps http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,8543,-11104901402,00.html imagine 
them pushing to the hut at the back as a hoge mob. That is a bit how I 
envision the issue-queue if we continue to grow the wa we did the last 
year. :) Those with the strongest arms and loudest voice will make it 
first :)
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