Re: Kudos for Reviewers -- straw poll

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:50:07AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> b) It would be a pretty good thing to mention reviewers within commit notes;
> that provides some direct trace-back as to who it was that either validated
> that the change was good, or that let a bad one slip through.
>
> c) The release notes indicate authors of changes; to have a list of reviewers
> would be a fine thing.
>
> If it requires inordinate effort to get the reviewers directly attached to each
> and every change, perhaps it isn't worthwhile to go to extreme efforts to that
> end.
>
> It could be pretty satisfactory to have a simple listing, in the release notes,
> of the set of reviewers. That's a lot less bookkeeping than tracking this for
> each and every change.

Adding the names to each release note item is not a problem; the
problem is the volume of names that overwhelms the release note text. If
we went that direction, I predict we would just remove _all_ names from
the release notes.

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