Re: Idea that might inspire more patch reviewing. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: Idea that might inspire more patch reviewing.
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Msg-id 4650BE72.3090901@sun.com
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In response to Idea that might inspire more patch reviewing.  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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Ron Mayer wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review
>> patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that".
> 
> Would it inspire more people to learn enough to become patch
> reviewers if patch authors scheduled walkthroughs of their
> patches with question and answer sessions over IRC or maybe
> even some voice conferencing system like skype?

It is common in one company but I'm not sure if it is possible do in 
open source community.

I think the following tool looks likes good solution for patch review:

http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=222
http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/
    Zdenek


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