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

[Robert Douglass]

Karthik wrote:
  > What's the difference between the above and RTC?

I don't understand the question (RTC)...

But here is the essence of my idea stated differently:

There is currently no way to delegate the task of reviewing patches to 
trusted developers with lots of Drupal experience and a proven track 
record (and give the results of their review extra meaning). Giving some 
people the "promote patch" permission enables a group of people to do 
more of the workload without the risk that their work gets wasted 
(buried in the queue).

The separate patch queue is, of course, just a matter of classification. 
Issues will have the "promoted" field checked, and then they're in the 
second queue. At this point, however, they have a special status that is 
codified by the fact that a view exists to display just this set of issues.

So two goals are met: delegated responsibility for reviewing issues and 
heightened visibility for the issues that get promoted.

One could argue that we just add another status to the current list and 
rely on the search filter to display it, but imo that isn't special 
enough, not visible enough. An issue entering the pressure cooker needs 
to send strong signals throughout the community:

- this is an important issue and some trusted developer has looked at it 
carefully.
- this issue is guaranteed to be evaluated by a core committer.
- this issue will leave the pressure cooker either by entering the 
Drupal codebase or by being rejected, at which point it will not likely 
be worthwhile to revive it.

Furthermore, it will be easier to open up subscription and notification 
channels for this queue if there is a clear distinction:

- mail notifications when issues enter the pressure cooker
- RSS feed for all pressure cooker issues.

Finally, we have a chance to add some marketing value to these issues. 
I'm calling it the pressure cooker, but my intention is that whatever we 
call it, people should be able to immediately understand that "this is 
where it's happening... this is the space to watch". It will be easier 
to motivate large efforts (testing, reviewing, commenting etc.) if there 
is a real distinction. We can have a link on the front page. It is 
easier to say "Focus on the pressure cooker" than it is to say "Focus on 
all issues with status xyz".

Did I hit your question?

cheers,

Robert