On 2010-06-07 at 17:42:24 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: > wrote: > The better patch tracking on Trac is already very helpful -- when you want > to > take some time reviewing patches. As long as that is not happening more > often > and from more of the Haiku developers, I am afraid patches will still rot, > which is a shame. That being said, much bigger projects (for example WebKit) > have very similar problems. There have to be people willing to review and > often a review has to be more than pointing out the coding style issues or > getting hung up on silly details on the surface. I believe it's a problem of > how much time people devote to Haiku, which is at least in part a problem of > motivation and moral. More interesting stuff happening at once and more felt > progress are the single biggest positive influences on moral (IMHO). Hence I > believe we should give people commit access as soon as possible, since that > will help the entire project in more than just one way. Well, no disagreement there. Just on what "as soon as possible" means. I simply think that should include a certain patch quality -- basically such that the developer can be trusted to work independently on the component of interest. CU, Ingo PS: Unless more Haiku progress stops you from pursuing your serial killing hobby or something like that, you really mean "morale" here.