[development] RTBC is now "reviewed & tested by the community"

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Feb 23 19:06:36 UTC 2008


Quoting Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert at gmail.com>:

> I'm slightly worried that 'reviewed and tested by the community' will
> have lower quality submissions than 'ready to be committed'.  The
> problem with 'reviewed and tested by the community' is that people
> will set it to 'reviewed and tested by the community' after one
> review, whereas with 'ready to be committed', we typically had
> different people looking at a patch.
>

As was stated in the issue at least two reviewers and testers should 
comment before setting to this status.  As for the control of the 
setting, it operates the same as Ready To Be Committed.

> Read: I think 'ready to committed' was perfectly fine and I don't
> understand why this was changed without my approval.  After all, I'm
> the one reviewing and committing these patches.
>

It is a user perception thing.  Ready To Be Committed not committed 
inflames developers.  Reviewed and Tested is implies that some role 
level greater than the patch creator can now take his precious time to 
look at this lowly patch.

> Also, why the 'by the community' part?  Why not just 'reviewed and
> tested'?  Please rename at least to 'reviewed and tested'.  Everything
> we do is community-driven so 'by the community' is completely
> redundant.  It seems to  suggest that there is a non-community body as
> well.
>

Agreed.

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