[haiku-development] [haiku-development] Re: Commit access for Andreas Färber

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:59:05 +0200

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.

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